The Experimental Study on Ocular Rigidity of Rabbit In Vivo

Author

Chen Weiyi ; Liu Chunsheng ; Wang Xiaojun ; Li Yanjun ; Li Xiaona ; Ma Lei

Author_Institution

Appl. Mech. & Biomed. Eng. Inst., Taiyuan Univ. of Technol., Taiyuan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Ocular rigidity is an important indicator describing the entirety elastic properties of the eyeball, which has a direct correlation with myopia and glaucoma. In this paper, how the intraocular pressures (IOP), central corneal thickness (CCT), and ages influenced ocular rigidity of New Zealand white rabbits was investigated. CCT and basic IOP were measured by the PachyMeter Echograph and Schiote Tonometer respectively. Dynamic relationship between IOP and volume of eye was measured by self-established test system. Our results showed that there was no difference between the ocular rigidity of both eyes in the same group rabbits. The ocular rigidity decreased with the increase of ages, while increased with the IOP. But CCT, initial IOP and Axial Length of the eye in four groups had no significant effects on ocular rigidity.

Keywords

biomechanics; biomedical measurement; diseases; elasticity; eye; shear modulus; Schiote tonometer; ages; central corneal thickness; eye volume; eyeball; glaucoma; intraocular pressures; myopia; ocular rigidity; pachymeter echograph; self-established test system; white rabbits; Anesthesia; Automatic testing; Biological materials; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical measurements; Differential equations; In vivo; Rabbits; Switches; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, 2009. BMEI '09. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tianjin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4132-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4134-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2009.5305808

Filename

5305808