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ArticleJournal of biomedical optics2026

Determination of corneal phase and group refractive indices

Jianli Ren, Xikai Wei, Cheng Lu, Qingyun Li, Kaixi Zheng, Dexi Zhu

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Jianli RenEye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Ophthalmic Drug Discovery and Medical Device Research, Wenzhou, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6061-891X
Xikai WeiEye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Wenzhou, China.
Cheng LuEye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Wenzhou, China.
Qingyun LiEye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Wenzhou, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9193-8664
Kaixi ZhengEye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Ocular Diseases, Wenzhou, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7804-0323
Dexi ZhuEye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Ophthalmic Drug Discovery and Medical Device Research, Wenzhou, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/zhudexioo@hotmail.com

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Abstract

Significance: Precise determination of corneal refractive indices is essential for accurate refractive power calculations, personalized refractive surgery planning, and glaucoma management. However, current clinical methods fail to distinguish between the group refractive index ( Aim: We aim to develop a multimodal measurement system integrating spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and confocal scanning for the precise extraction of the Approach: A dual-modality platform sharing an 860 nm source was constructed to jointly capture the optical path length (OPL) and confocal distance. A two-step progressive workflow was implemented: first, the Results: System validation using optical window plates yielded a relative error of only 0.01% to 0.09% for Conclusions: This technique successfully resolves the

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CorneaRefractometryTomography, Optical CoherenceAlgorithmsAnimalsHumansMicroscopy, ConfocalSwineconfocal scanningcorneal refractive indexdispersion coefficientsoptical coherence tomography

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PMCPMC13452403

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