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Professor at the University of Murcia Ernesto de la Cruz collaborates with a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers has managed to model the human cornea and by geometric parameters characterize keratoconus, an eye disease that belongs to the so-called corneal ectasia.
The corneal tissue forming structure are deformed in this condition, modifying the thickness of the layers that compose it and thereby altering the visual capabilities of patients.
In its more advanced stages, involves the complete loss of vision, making it necessary in extreme cases a corneal transplant.
The study, which is published this week in the journal Plos One, proposes the use of spatial geometry to model this complex biological structure, using the same techniques of surface generation currently used in other fields such as engineering or naval architecture .
Once the cornea modeled by these methods have been proposed various geometric parameters that had hitherto been described, which faithfully to diagnose this disease in its various stages.
The research, which arises from the doctoral thesis of Professor Francisco UPCT Cavas, developed by the group of Multidisciplinary Engineering and Safety of the University, in collaboration with Vissum Corporation Ophthalmology and the University Miguel Hernández of Elche.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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