摘要
A precise measurement of the applanated diameter of the ocular cornea with the optical probe is very important in applanation tonometry.A novel optical probe with a common path configuration is presented.The optical probe mainly consists of a cone-shaped prism and a photodetector.The former serves as a measuring body touching the ocular cornea to shape the area to be measured,and the latter converts the quantity of the luminous flux returning from the cone-shaped prism into one electronic current signal.Laboratory experiments are carried out on a simulated eyeball,followed by an enucleated porcine eyeball specimen.Experimental results show that there is a significant rise of the normalized variational current with increasing the applanation diameter of the ocular cornea,and the sensitivity is 0.2111/mm with an error of 0.00263/mm.Measurements of the normalized variational current on the porcine eyeball have good agreement with those on the simulated eyeball.
基金
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Provincial Education Department (Nos. KJ2008B262,KJ2008A146 and KJ2011z060)
