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PURPOSE: To evaluate clinical outcomes after primary treatments for myopia and myopic astigmatism with topography-based ablation profiles on the Allegretto Wave Eye-Q platform (Alcon Laboratories Inc). METHODS: Records of patients who underwent topography-guided, Q-adjusted LASIK were retrieved and analyzed. Patients with mean refractive spherical equivalent up to −16.00 diopters (D) and cylindrical errors up to 6.00 D were included (2051 eyes). Refractive outcomes and visual acuities were analyzed preoperatively and 3 months postoperatively. RESULTS: Manifest spherical refractive error decreased from −5.05±2.33 to +0.04±0.35 D. Manifest cylindrical refractive error decreased from 0.83±0.75 to 0.23±0.22 D. At 3 months postoperatively, 86.1% (1766 eyes) had a spherical equivalent refraction within ±0.50 D of targeted refraction. The number of eyes with uncorrected distance visual acuity of 20/16 and 20/20 was 851 (41.5%) and 1495 (72.9%), respectively. At 3 months, 0.10% (2 eyes) lost more than 2 lines of corrected distance visual acuity and a loss of 2 lines occurred in 0.24% (5 eyes). All patients who lost lines of visual acuity were found to have corneal erosions related to dryness and recovered vision on further follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this retrospective study demonstrate refractive predictability, efficacy, and safety comparable to other treatment modalities such as wavefront-optimized and wavefront-guided treatments. Results are also similar to those reported with other topography-guided systems.

A simplified scheme for the provision of antiprotons at 100 MeV/c based on fast extraction is described. The scheme uses the existing p production target area and the modified Antiproton Collector Ring in their current location. The physics programme is largely based on capturing and storing antiprotons in Penning traps for the production and spectroscopy of antihydrogen. The machine modifications necessary to deliver batches of 1 u 10 7 p /min at 100 MeV/c are described. Details of the machine layout and the experimental area in the existing AAC Hall are given.

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A simplified scheme for the provision of antiprotons at 100 MeV/c based on fast extraction is described. The scheme uses the existing p production target area and the modified Antiproton Collector Ring in their current location. The physics programme is largely based on capturing and storing antiprotons in Penning traps for the production and spectroscopy of antihydrogen. The machine modifications necessary to deliver batches of 1 u 10 7 p /min at 100 MeV/c are described. Details of the machine layout and the experimental area in the existing AAC Hall are given.