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  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Medical Imaging

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  • Corneal cross-linking (CXL) is a key treatment for progressive keratoconus.
  • Accurate assessment of corneal biomechanics is crucial for understanding CXL efficacy and diagnosing corneal diseases.
  • Current methods for measuring corneal strain can be invasive or lack high resolution.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel non-contact optical coherence elastography (OCE) approach.
  • To measure highly resolved, lateral, and axial corneal strain distribution.
  • To assess strain changes at various stages of patterned corneal cross-linking (CXL).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized freshly enucleated rat eyes for experiments.
  • Applied accelerated patterned corneal cross-linking (CXL) with distinct ultraviolet (UV) irradiation patterns.
  • Recorded corneal deformation using non-contact OCE in response to ambient pressure variations (-2 mmHg).
  • Derived strain maps from optical coherence tomography (OCT) signal phase and magnitude changes.

Main Results:

  • Virgin corneas exhibited negative anterior strain (-2.7 ± 1.1‰) and positive posterior strain (1.9 ± 1.3‰).
  • Corneal cross-linking (CXL) induced a significant shift towards positive anterior corneal strain, especially in UV-irradiated areas.
  • Patterned UV irradiation resulted in localized strain alterations that precisely matched the irradiation pattern's geometry.

Conclusions:

  • Demonstrated the feasibility of non-contact OCE using ambient pressure modulation for corneal biomechanical assessment.
  • This technique holds potential for improving early diagnosis of corneal degeneration.
  • The method can advance research in small animal eye models and refine in vitro mechanical investigations.