About the Authors

Sotiris Plainis

plainis@med.uoc.gr

Affiliations Institute of Vision & Optics (IVO), University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Dionysia Petratou

Affiliation Institute of Vision & Optics (IVO), University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

Trisevgeni Giannakopoulou

Affiliation Institute of Vision & Optics (IVO), University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

Hema Radhakrishnan

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Ioannis G. Pallikaris

Affiliation Institute of Vision & Optics (IVO), University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

W. Neil Charman

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

IG Pallikaris is the medical director of the Flexivue Corneal Inlay (Presbia) (nonfinancial competing interest). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP HR WNC. Performed the experiments: SP TG DP. Analyzed the data: SP TG DP WNC. Wrote the paper: SP HR WNC IJP.