title: Effect of change in concentration upon lens turbidity as predicted by the random fluctuation theory.
abstract: Theoretical calculations were performed to predict how the light scattering intensity would change with changes in concentration in the gel state. The theory of light scattering was applied to a random distribution of hard spheres. The spherical particles with constant diameter were embedded in a medium having a different refractive index. The light-scattering intensities obtained as a function of concentration showed that in dilute solutions the scattered light intensity increases with concentration. However, in concentrated solution greater than 0.1 or 0.2 volume fraction, the light-scattering intensity decreases with increase in concentration.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D009391:Nephelometry and Turbidimetry; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D012542:Scattering, Radiation