Clinical Study

Corneal Backscatter Analysis by In Vivo Confocal Microscopy: Fellow Eye Comparison of Small Incision Lenticule Extraction and Femtosecond Laser-Assisted LASIK

Table 5

Backscattered light intensity 120  m below the epithelium.

SMILE ( )Femto-LASIK ( )
Mean (SU) ± SDMean (SU) ± SD

Preoperative 0.007
Week 1*
Month 1*
Month 3*
Month 6

: number of eyes; SU: scatter units; SD: standard deviation.
: the difference between the two groups in the change from baseline.