title: The relationship between refractive and biometric changes during Edinger-Westphal stimulated accommodation in rhesus monkeys.
abstract: Experiments were undertaken to understand the relationship between dynamic accommodative refractive and biometric (lens thickness (LT), anterior chamber depth (ACD) and anterior segment length (ASL=ACD+LT)) changes during Edinger-Westphal stimulated accommodation in rhesus monkeys. Experiments were conducted on three rhesus monkeys (aged 11.5, 4.75 and 4.75 years) which had undergone prior, bilateral, complete iridectomies and implantation of a stimulating electrode in the Edinger-Westphal (EW) nucleus. Accommodative refractive responses were first measured dynamically with video-based infrared photorefraction and then ocular biometric responses were measured dynamically with continuous ultrasound biometry (CUB) during EW stimulation. The same stimulus amplitudes were used for the refractive and biometric measurements to allow them to be compared. Main sequence relationships (ratio of peak velocity to amplitude) were calculated. Dynamic accommodative refractive changes are linearly correlated with the biometric changes and accommodative biometric changes in ACD, ASL and LT show systematic linear correlations with increasing accommodative amplitudes. The relationships are relatively similar for the eyes of the different monkeys. Dynamic analysis showed that main sequence relationships for both biometry and refraction are linear. Although accommodative refractive changes in the eye occur primarily due to changes in lens surface curvature, the refractive changes are well correlated with A-scan measured accommodative biometric changes. Accommodative changes in ACD, LT and ASL are all well correlated over the full extent of the accommodative response.
authors.affiliation: College of Optometry, University of Houston, 4901 Calhoun Rd, Houston, TX 77204-6052, USA.
authors.forename: Abhiram S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Vilupuru
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Glasser
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D012029:Refraction, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014463:Ultrasonography
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