From left: Professor Thomas White, Professor Paul Donaldson, Dr Wilson Pan, Professor Barabara Piercionek and Dr Catherine Cheng in the Gold Coast at the ISER conference.
Members of our staff have recently had a paper published, which is titled ‘Age-Dependent Changes in the Water Content and Optical Power of the In Vivo Mouse Lens Revealed by Multi-Parametric MRI and Optical Modeling.’ (Authors: Pan, X., Muir, E. R., Sellitto, C., Wang, K., Cheng, C., Pierscionek, B., Donaldson, J.P. & White, T. W.)
In this paper, they utilised multi-parametric in vivo MRI and optical modelling to show that changes to the geometry and gradient of refractive index that determine lens power are driven by active to active removal of water from the growing mouse lens.
Their results have shed new light on the process of emmetropization that ensures the light continues to focus on the retina as the eye grows. This study was funded by National Eye Institute (NEI, USA) in collaboration with colleagues from the USA, UK and China.
Read the paper here: Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 64(4), 24-24