title: Linear dichroism of the cornea.
abstract: The dichroic properties of in vitro sheep corneas were studied with a spectrophotometer in transmission mode for several angles of incidence of light beams. Several models of corneal anisotropy have been presented in the literature. The results presented here allow us to believe that the cornea behaves as a dichroic biaxial crystal. Furthermore, this dichroism is weak when the angle of incidence on the corneal surface stays small. The mathematical model that describes these optical properties of the cornea uses Mueller matrices.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique 7039, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, 2 Avenue de la Forêt de Haye, 54516 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France. vlouis@ensem.inpl-nancy.fr
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Louis-Dorr
authors.forename: Karim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Naoun
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Allé
authors.forename: Anne-Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Benoit
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raspiller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016880:Anisotropy; D001718:Birefringence; D003315:Cornea / Q000528:radiation effects*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008027:Light; D008954:Models, Biological; D012756:Sheep; D013053:Spectrophotometry