The Importance of HOA Reduction Measurements to Improving Refractive Surgery Result Outcomes [Response to Letter]

Abstract

Anastasios John Kanellopoulos,1,2,* Matthias Maus,3,* Chandra Bala,4,* Cody Hamilton,5,* Sissimos Lemonis,6,* Maria Elena Jockovich,5,* Ramin Khoramnia7,* 1LaserVision Ambulatory Surgical Unit, Athens, Greece; 2Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA; 3Sehkraft Augenzentrum, Köln, Germany; 4PersonalEyes, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 5Alcon Vision, LLC, Fort Worth, TX, USA; 6Alcon Deutschland GmbH, Freiburg, Germany; 7Department of Ophthalmology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Anastasios John Kanellopoulos, LaserVision Ambulatory Surgical Unit, An Thocha 17, Athens, 11521, Greece, Tel [phone], Fax + 302107472789, Email [email protected]

Keywords

• wavelight contoura
• wavelight innoveyes topographic guided ablation
• ray tracing
• vector astigmatism
• astigmatism
• uniform cornea
• lyra protocol
• higher-order aberrations
• lower-order aberrations
• photorefractive keratectomy
• lasik