1Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
2Brien Holden Institute of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
3The Cornea Institute, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Submitted: June 20, 2019
Accepted: January 26, 2020
Funding/Support: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (to PKV).
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: The authors listed report a financial conflict of interest (SS, SRB, JCR, PVK) with Carl Zeiss Meditec. The sponsor provided complimentary licenses to perform the ReLEx small-incision lenticule extraction refractive surgery procedure and also supported the salary of the research optometrist for the duration of the study. The sponsor, however, had no role in the study design, conduct, analysis and interpretation, or writing of the report.
Author Contributions and Acknowledgments: Conceptualization: SRB, PKV; Data Curation: SS, SRB, PKV; Formal Analysis: SS, SRB, PKV; Funding Acquisition: JCR, PKV; Investigation: SS, SRB, JCR, PKV; Methodology: SS, SRB, JCR, PKV; Project Administration: SS, SRB, PKV; Resources: SRB, PKV; Software: SRB; Supervision: SRB, JCR, PKV; Validation: SS, SRB, JCR, PKV; Visualization: SS, SRB; Writing – Original Draft: SS, SRB, PKV; Writing – Review & Editing: SS, SRB, JCR, PKV.
The authors thank all the participants of this study and Prof. Larry Thibos of the Indiana University School of Optometry, Bloomington, IN, for sharing the Fourier Optics Calculator used to perform the optical simulations shown in Fig. 3. The authors would like to acknowledge the support by Carl Zeiss Meditec for providing complimentary licenses to perform the ReLEx small-incision lenticule extraction refractive surgery procedure and for supporting the salary of the research optometrist for the duration of the study.
SS and SRB contributed equally to this article and are considered co–first authors.
