Table 2.
Transparency analysis of aligned and randomly-oriented Self-Lifting Auto-generated Tissue Equivalents (A- and R-SLATEs, respectively) formed by human corneal stromal cells. Spectral transmittance values (%) are represented as maximum, minimum, and average ± S.D. of four individual tissues (n = 12).
| Tissue | Near-UV (300–380 nm) |
Visible (380–780 nm) |
Near-IR (780–1050 nm) |
All |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max. | Min. | Aver. | Max. | Min. | Aver. | Max. | Min. | Aver. | Aver. | |
| A-SLATEs | 95.1 | 92.4 | 93.5 ± 0.8 | 99.0 | 95.1 | 97.9 ± 0.9 | 99.2 | 98.0 | 99.0 ± 0.2 | 97.8 ± 1.7 |
| R-SLATEs | 95.2 | 92.7 | 93.8 ± 0.8 | 99.2 | 95.3 | 98.1 ± 1.0 | 99.5 | 97.6 | 99.1 ± 0.3 | 98.0 ± 1.7 |