Table 5.

Whole eye wavefront errors (4 mm diameter pupil) and low-contrast visual acuity in fellow eyes of unoperated normal myopic controls.

	Right Eye	Left Eye	P	MDD
Whole Eye Wavefront Error (Root Mean Square, µm)
All high-order	0.11 ± 0.05	0.11 ± 0.04	0.86	0.04
Spherical	0.03 ± 0.02	0.03 ± 0.03	0.36	0.01
Coma	0.07 ± 0.05	0.06 ± 0.04	0.86	0.04
Trefoil	0.07 ± 0.03	0.06 ± 0.03	0.55	0.02
Low Contrast Visual Acuity (logMAR)
Photopic	0.25 ± 0.13	0.23 ± 0.15	0.54	0.08
Mesopic	0.60 ± 0.10	0.60 ± 0.18	0.91	0.09

Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation; n=18 for all comparisons.

MDD, minimum detectable difference between eyes (α=0.05, β=0.20, n=18, paired analysis).