Figure 1

Diagrams showing how the functional assessment of fresh lenses and analysis of the results was performed. A. The location of laser penetrations during laser scan analysis of fresh rabbit lenses is represented by filled red circles. Four scan series' were done for each lens at 0°, 45°, 90° and 135° to provide scan data along the anterior (dark blue, vertical line) and posterior (light blue, horizontal line) lens sutures, as well as maximally off of the sutures. B. For analysis the scan data was divided into three groups: outer scans (yellow ring), intermediate scans (blue ring) and inner scans (green ring) which corresponded to specific ranges of equatorial diameter. Specifically, the outer region contained measures from 10 mm to 7.6 mm, the intermediate region contained measures from 7.5 mm to 5.5 mm and the inner region contained measures that were < 5.4 mm.