TAMPA, Fla. — A ray tracing approach to LASIK is showing promise in mitigating the ongoing increase in worldwide myopia cases, according to a presentation at the Telling It Like It Is meeting.
Brett Mueller, DO, PhD, said that utilizing ray tracing profiles through artificial intelligence is the next step in improving patient outcomes through LASIK, as it uses a combination of wavefront maps, biometry and tomography to offer a more thorough correction technique for the entire eye.
“We can create a true avatar system of the eye, so we can then create ablation profiles that will then