Biomechanical properties are an excellent health marker of biological tissues, however they are challenging to be measured in-vivo. Non-invasive approaches to assess tissue biomechanics have been suggested, but there is a clear need for more accurate techniques for diagnosis, surgical guidance and treatment evaluation. Recently air-puff systems have been developed to study the dynamic tissue re...

PURPOSE. To investigate the normative data of corneal and anterior segment biometric parameters and their associations in Chinese adults, for use in preoperative assessment for corneal and anterior segment surgery. METHODS. This cross-sectional, population-based study included 750 subjects aged > or =50 years. The subjects underwent an ophthalmic examination including imaging with anterior segm...

purpose: to compare outcomes of two techniques (anwar vs. melles) of deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) in patients with keratoconus. methods: this randomized double-blind clinical trial was performed on 57 eyes of 57 patients with keratoconus. patients aged 20-35 years with a clinical diagnosis of keratoconus who were contact lens intolerant and had corrected distance visual acuity (cd...

PURPOSE To compare the anterior and posterior corneal elevation maps between keratoconus-suspect eyes and normal eyes. SETTING Rothschild Foundation, AP-HP, University Paris VII, Hôpital Bichat Claude Bernard, Paris, France. METHODS The anterior and posterior corneal surface elevations were analyzed and compared in 60 normal myopic patients and 48 keratoconus-suspect patients. The anterior ...

Objective: Modeling the critical issues of the dynamics of UV-light-initiated crosslinking of corneal collagen including the new safety criteria, crosslinking time and the efficacy. Methods: A coupled dynamic equations is numerically solved and analytic formulas are derived for three critical parameters: the safety dose (E*), the cross linking time (T*) and the efficacy defined by the increase ...