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. 2011 Jul 6;101(1):33–42. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.05.029

Table 1.

Relative proportion of fibrils occupying a 1.4° sector around the preferential alignment direction for aligned and isotropic, iso, fibril populations at three locations

Scan - location on limbus (Cornea #) Relative proportions of fibril populations by location
Cornea (central 6mm) Inner limbal edge Limbal center
i-s n-t iso i-s n-t iso i-s n-t iso
1 - inf (1) 0.36 0.48 0.16 0.34 0.50 0.16
- sup (1) 0.41 0.40 0.19 0.31 0.52 0.17 0.31 0.50 0.19
- sup (2) 0.36 0.33 0.31 0.21 0.47 0.32 0.78 0.22
2 - inf-nas (1) 0.40 0.45 0.15 0.39 0.39 0.22
- sup-temp (1) 0.41 0.39 0.20 0.35 0.45 0.20 0.37 0.37 0.26
- sup-temp (2) 0.38 0.31 0.31 0.21 0.38 0.41 0.34 0.34 0.32
3 - nas (1) 0.58 0.21 0.21 0.68 0.11 0.21
- temp (1) 0.39 0.45 0.16 0.52 0.23 0.25 0.70 0.11 0.19
- temp (2) 0.36 0.33 0.33 0.60 0.18 0.22 0.65 0.16 0.19
4 - sup-nas (1) 0.43 0.43 0.14 0.37 0.37 0.25
- inf-temp (1) 0.39 0.41 0.20 0.47 0.41 0.12 0.45 0.45 0.10
- inf-temp (2) 0.35 0.36 0.29 0.43 0.38 0.19 0.39 0.39 0.22

Indicates coalignment of i-s and n-t populations, where each population was assumed to contribute equally to the combined peak. † indicates peak was not measurable due to low fibril occupancy.