ArticleBiomedical optics express2016
Alteration in refractive index profile during accommodation based on mechanical modelling.
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- In vivo changes in the gradient of refractive index distribution in the accommodating human lens.Experimental eye research · 2025Article
- Age-related changes in geometry and transparency of human crystalline lens revealed by optical signal discontinuity zones in swept-source OCT images.Eye and vision (London, England) · 2023Article
- Aberrations and accommodation.Clinical & experimental optometry · 2020Review
- Gradient moduli lens models: how material properties and application of forces can affect deformation and distributions of stress.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
The lens of the eye has a gradient refractive index (GRIN). Ocular accommodation, which alters the shape of the lens in response to visual demand, causes a redistribution of the internal structure of the lens leading to a change in the GRIN profile. The nature of this redistribution and the consequence of change in the GRIN profile are not understood. A modelling approach that considers how the GRIN profile may change with accommodation needs to take into account optical and mechanical parameters and be cognisant of individual variability in the shape and size of lenses. This study models the normalised axial GRIN profile during accommodation using reduced modelling and incorporating finite element analysis to connect inhomogenous mechanical characteristics of the lens to optical performance. The results show that simulated stretching changes the length of the plateau but does not alter the cortical gradient, which supports clinical findings. There is a very small change to the accommodated and non-accommodated profiles when normalised, yet this yields measurable changes in aberrations with around 11% and almost 13% difference in spherical aberration and astigmatism respectively. The results can be used in reconstruction of the refractive index and for investigating gradual changes with age.
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