Table 3.

Comparison of linear cone density measurements between previously published ex vivo and in vivo studies with measurements from the current study.

Study	Ex Vivo	In Vivo Adult				In Vivo Children/Adult	In Vivo Children
	Curcio et al.25	Li et al.26	Song et al.30	Elsner et al.27	Lombardo et al.23	Park et al.15	Current work
Number of subjects	7	18	10	36	12	36	29
Age range (years)	27–44	23–44	22–35	18–34	24–38	10–20	5–16
Axial length range (mm)	Not reported	22.9–28.3	22.1–26.1	23.2–25.8	22.6–26.6	22.01–28.43	20.86–25.64
Linear Cone Density (cones/mm2) at eccentricities of:
~0.20 mm	73,000	78,900 ± 9300	67,400 ± 15,600 (0.18 mm)	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported	55,897 ± 6,698
~0.30 mm	53,500	57,000 ± 6800	56,700 ± 7,900 (0.27 mm)	43,216 ± 6,039 (0.27 mm)	49,393 ± 7,941 (0.26 mm)	Not reported	47,009 ± 4,802
~0.40 mm	42,200	Not reported	46,800 ± 8,300 (0.36 mm)	Not reported	38,000	Not reported	Not reported
≥0.50 mm	36,000 (0.50 mm)	Not reported	38,800 ± 7,500 (0.45 mm)	27,466 ± 3,496 (0.63 mm)	30,049 ± 4,954 (0.6 mm)	32,554 ± 2,884 (0.50 mm)	32,556 ± 3,954 (0.50 mm)
Meridians reported	All	All	All	All	Horizontal	All	All