Purpose: Local variations in refractive index are the physical cause of light scattering in a material or tissue and also induce phase changes of propagating light waves. The goal of this study was to analyse local differences in refractive index by phase contrast microscopy of sections of human lenses.
Methods: Refractive index was estimated by immersion refractometry. Cryo-sections of quick-frozen human donor lenses were embedded in a graded series of bovine serum albumin solutions, and in immersion oil, ranging in refractive index from 1.34 to 1.52.
Results: Fibre membranes in the lens cortex prove to have a refractive index considerably above that of fibre cytoplasm at the same location. Fibre membranes in the lens nucleus have a refractive index approximately the same as that of fibre cytoplasm at the same location.
Conclusion: In the lens cortex, transparency is obtained by a high spatial order of the lens fibre lattice to compensate for the light scattering caused by differences in refractive index between fibre membranes and cytoplasm. In the lens nucleus, high spatial order is less important, because the minor differences in the refractive index between fibre membranes and fibre cytoplasm lead only to minimal scattering.
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