THEORY OF LENS TRANSPARENCY Although the lens is comprised of very high concentrations of protein approaching about 37% wet weight in the nucleus of an adult human lens [1], it remains relatively transparent throughout most of an individual’s adult life. The original explanation for transparency involved an ordered array of proteins, resulting in periodic destructive interference leading to tra...

In this paper, we propose a new method for the removal of view-disturbing waterdrops from images taken with multiple cameras. In rainy days, it is often the case that scenes taken by the camera are hard to see because of adherent waterdrops on the surface of the lens protecting glass. The proposed method analyses multiple camera images describing the same scene, and synthesizes an image in whic...

The focusability of a long l)ulse XeCI excimer laser has been improved using confocal positive branch unstable resonators where the outcoupling is done through the convex mirror. For the outcoupler different reflectivity profiles are used. A near diffraction limited output beam is obtained from hard edge unstable resonators. A beam with only one central s1)ot in the focus of a lens can be obtai...

purpose: to evaluate the prevalence of contat lens wear among highschool girls and their general knowledge about contact lenses and also to evaluate the specific knowledge of contact lens wearers about the lens. methods: in a cross-sectional study, 1664 students of 22 randomly selected girl highschools were enrolled. a questionaire including questions about wearing contact lens, age of first us...

Abstract. Natural wormholes and its astrophysical signatures have been sugested in various oportunities. By applying the strong field limit of gravitational lensing theory, we calculate the deflection angle produced by Morris-Thorne wormholes in asimptotically flat space-times. The results show that wormholes act like convergent lenses. Therefore it is hard to distinguish them from black holes ...

BACKGROUND The need to incorporate stereopsis into a teleophthalmology system is controversial. Detection of hard exudate in the macula is suggested by some as an adequate surrogate for direct observation of retinal thickening. This study was designed to determine how accurate the detection of hard exudate is as a surrogate for stereoscopic detection of clinically significant macular edema (CSM...

Visual strain and discomfort may contribute to the generation of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among e.g. computer workers. A positive correlation on a group level between eye-lens accommodation and trapezius muscle activity has been reported. In this study we investigated the possibility of a direct, fast, connection between lens accommodation and trapezius muscles activity. The subje...

The resolution of almost all conventional optical system is indispensably governed by the diffraction limit. This resolution limit can be overcome by use of focusing the evanescent waves in the near field region. The concept of “superlens” was proposed firstly by Pendry in 2000 [1]. When ε= -1and μ= -1, the negative refractive index material plate can be a perfect lens [2-4]. Because of the dis...

PURPOSE To demonstrate the feasibility of measuring the elasticity of intact crystalline lenses using atomic force microscopy (AFM). METHODS AFM elasticity measurements were performed on intact lenses from 18 fresh cynomolgus monkey cadaver eyes (4-10 years old, <1 day postmortem) that had been left attached to their zonule-ciliary body-sclera framework. The eyes were prepared by bonding a pl...