ArticleJournal of cataract and refractive surgery2018
Quantifying the effects of hydration on corneal stiffness with noncontact optical coherence elastography.
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- Wave-based optical coherence elastography: The 10-year perspective.Progress in biomedical engineering (Bristol, England) · 2022Article
- Differences of Corneal Biomechanics Among Thin Normal Cornea, Forme-Fruste Keratoconus, and Cornea After SMILE.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Compressional Optical Coherence Elastography of the Cornea.Photonics · 2021Article
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purposeTo quantify the effects of the hydration state on the Young's modulus of the cornea.
settingBiomedical Optics Laboratory, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
designExperimental study.
methodsNoncontact, dynamic optical coherence elastography (OCE) measurements were taken of in situ rabbit corneas in the whole eye-globe configuration (n = 10) and at an artificially controlled intraocular pressure of 15 mm Hg. Baseline OCE measurements were taken by topically hydrating the corneas with saline for 1 hour. The corneas were then dehydrated topically with a 20% dextran solution for another hour, and the OCE measurements were repeated. A finite element method was used to quantify the Young's modulus of the corneas based on the OCE measurements.
resultsThe thickness of the corneas shrank considerably after topical addition of the 20% dextran solution (∼680 μm to ∼370 μm), and the OCE-measured elastic-wave speed correspondingly decreased (∼3.2 m/s to ∼2.6 m/s). The finite element method results showed an increase in Young's modulus (500 kPa to 800 kPa) resulting from dehydration and subsequent thinning.
conclusionYoung's modulus increased significantly as the corneas dehydrated and thinned, showing that corneal geometry and hydration state are critical factors for accurately quantifying corneal biomechanical properties.
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