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Hartmann-Shack aberrometry
(Shack-Hartmann aberrometry)
 
IN BRIEF

An aberrometry method which maps lower and higher order aberrations by projecting waves of light into a patient's eye and mapping the waves that bounce back.

 
DISCUSSION

 

 
examples

Most of the aberrometers in commercial use with LASIK use the Hartmann-Shack aberrometry method, including:

VISX WaveScan

Alcon LADARWave

Bausch & Lomb ZyWave

Carl Zeiss Meditec WASCA

 
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