Figure 6. The wavelength dependence of light scattering properties of the bovine corneal stromas (n = 6 for each concentration) as a function of NaCl concentration.

•, thin line, 10 mm; ▴, 30 mm; ×|, 50 mm; ○, 100 mm; •, continuous line, 154 mm; ▪, 300 mm; ▵, 600 mm; ⋄, 1 m. As discussed in the text, the actual quantity plotted is the averaged product (α_s,id_av)_av, which is directly proportional to the total light scattering cross-section, multiplied by the cube of the light wavelength to remove the inverse cubic wavelength dependence predicted by the short-range order models (following McCally & Farrell, 1988).