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Systematic underablation in LASIK: ablation pattern identified by advanced topographical analysis  

J Cataract Refract Surg. 2003 Aug;29(8):1621-5.  

Brown SM, Campbell CE.  Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, USA. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

Topographical analysis based on the differential geometry of surfaces-curvature topography-was developed and applied to a patient after laser in situ keratomileusis. The patient had a minimal residual refractive error and normal best corrected visual acuity but had multiple visual aberrations, including ghosting and glare, unless the pupils were maximally constricted. The corneal loci responsible for the aberrations were difficult or impossible to identify on axial topographies but were readily identified with curvature topography. The patient's ablations appeared to be miniature versions of the intended ablation profiles, with small areas of emmetropic central cornea surrounded by annuli of rapidly increasing keratometric power; that is, systematic underablation. This may explain why some patients have visual aberrations with pupil diameters smaller than the programmed optical zones.  

Dr. Sandra Brown is a Lubbock, Texas ophthalmologist and author of this and many other published articles and medical studies on the importance of pupil size in refractive surgery.  

You can find more of her work at www.pubmed.gov. (In the search engine type "Brown SM".)