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. 1972 Dec;12(12):1630–1641. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(72)86186-1

Dynamic Rheooptical Behavior of Isolated Bovine Cornea

Donald Kaplan, Frederick A Bettelheim
PMCID: PMC1484163  PMID: 4655663

Abstract

The dynamic Young's modulus E′ and loss modulus E″ were obtained for isolated bovine cornea using a direct-reading dynamic viscoelastometer. Within the temperature range (0-60°C) and frequency range (3.5-110 Hz) studied, both moduli were temperature and frequency independent. The dynamic birefringence of the cornea was measured in a special apparatus designed for this purpose in conjunction with the dynamic viscoelastometer. The stress-optical and strain-optical coefficients as well as the corresponding phase angles were evaluated as a function of temperature and frequency. The strain- and stress-optical coefficients were both temperature and frequency dependent.

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