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A light adjustable lens with injectable optics
Randall Olson1, Nick Mamalis, Brian Haugen
1John Moran Eye Center, Visual Sciences, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, 50 North Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA. randall.olson@hsc.utah.edu
Abstract:
The light adjustable lens (LAL) is an innovative intraocular lens optic composed of partially polymerized macromers with an appropriately bonded photosensitizer. The injectable technology and multifocality associated with the LAL can produce precise refractive correction and, it is hoped, the type of accommodative range that is taken for granted during youth. Combining these technologies with a lens material that behaves like the crystalline lens of 25-year-old could precisely return near and distance vision to older adults.

