The structure and transparency of the cornea
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The basic ultrastructure of the cornea had been described about 50 years ago and the principles behind corneal transparency were elucidated.
“About 50 years ago the basic ultrastructure had been described (Jakus, 1962) and the principles behind corneal transparency finally elucidated (Maurice, 1957, Hart and Farrell, 1969, Benedek, 1971)”
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Interference between scattered light waves from ordered crystalline arrays of collagen fibrils is a mechanism for corneal transparency.
“This lead researchers to look for other mechanisms and specifically to the ideas of interference between scattered light waves from ordered crystalline arrays of collagen fibrils (Maurice, 1957).”
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The cornea is not opaque because secondary waves from all collagen fibrils interfere with each other so that they cancel out in all directions except the forward direction, allowing the energy of incoming radiation to propagate forward through the cornea.
“The reason why the cornea is not opaque is that, as suggested by Maurice in 1957, the secondary waves from all collagen fibrils interfere with each other in a way that they cancel out in all directions except the forward direction.”
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- Authors
- Maurice, D. M.
- Corresponding author
- Maurice, D. M.
- ORCID
- Maurice, D. M.
- Venue
- The Journal of Physiology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1957-04-30
- Volume
- 136
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 263-286
- ISSN
- 0022-3751 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7793
- PMC
- PMC1358888
- OpenAlex
- W2039016753
- Cited by
- 1,129
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 8.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- The Journal of Physiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Corneal surgery and disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Corneal Surgery and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ocular Surface and Contact Lens
- Keywords
- cornea, corneal transparency, corneal structure
- MeSH terms
- Cornea, Humans
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