Abstract
Results of comparative ex vivo measurements of backscattering from rabbit cornea made by optical coherency tomography and confocal microscopy strongly suggests the existence of small angle backscattering from the cornea. Apparently, this is associated with a zero order peak of diffraction on the corneal fibril "lattice" structure, which was first suggested by D. Maurice in 1957 as a physical basis of corneal transparency. By using water suspension of polystyrene spheres as a scattering standard, absolute values of backscattering coefficients of normally hydrated cornea for wide and small angle backscattering and degree of fibrils arrangement could be estimated.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 53 |
| Pages (from-to) | 318-324 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE |
| Volume | 5690 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2005 |
| Event | Coherence Domain Optical Methods and Optical Coherence Tomography in Biomedicine IX - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Jan 23 2005 → Jan 26 2005 |
Keywords
- Corneal backscattering
- Corneal hydration control
- Fibrillar order
- Noninvasive monitoring
- OCT
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Biomaterials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging