Table 3. Corneal biomechanical parameters obtained from finite element analysis: Elasticity modulus represents the static material properties; The difference between anterior and posterior cornea describes the differences in collagen interweaving and the resulting higher anterior corneal rigidity; The relaxation time – which must lie within the temporal scale that was analyzed – describes the point of time at which the corneal stiffness decreased by the factor of the relative modulus; The muscle spring and damping constants describe the static and dynamic displacement, respectively, due to whole the eye movement in in vivo measurements.

	Human	Porcine
Condition	virgin	cross-linked
Elasticity modulus (Mpa)posterior cornea	0.40	0.85
Difference between anterior and posterior	1.12	30
Relaxation time (ms)	10	1.5
Relative modulus	0.3	0.7
Muscle spring constant (Nm)	350	-
Muscle damping constant (kg/s)	100	-

The latter two parameters represent accumulated contributions of muscles and fatty tissue and were not further interpreted.