Abstract
It is generally assumed that the collagen fibrils in the stroma are the primary scatterers of light in the nearly transparent cornea of the eye. We derive a scaling relationship between scattering angle and light wavelength that should hold if this hypothesis is valid. The derivation accounts for the cornea’s layered nature and the azimuthal orientations of the fibrils in the different layers. The fibrils are treated as finite-length cylinders, and the scaling relation is obtained in both the far- and the intermediate-field zones. The predicted relationship is verified experimentally for normal-thickness rabbit corneas.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1970-1982 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 1986 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition