Modeling of vision loss due to vitreous hemorrhage by Monte Carlo simulation

Tarek Al-Saeed; El-Sayed El-Zaiat

doi:10.1117/1.JBO.19.8.085009

1 August 2014 Modeling of vision loss due to vitreous hemorrhage by Monte Carlo simulation

Tarek Al-Saeed, El-Sayed El-Zaiat

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 19, Issue 8, 085009 (August 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.19.8.085009

Abstract

Vitreous hemorrhage is the leaking of blood into the vitreous humor which results from different diseases. Vitreous hemorrhage leads to vision problems ranging from mild to severe cases in which blindness occurs. Since erythrocytes are the major scatterers in blood, we are modeling light propagation in vitreous humor with erythrocytes randomly distributed in it. We consider the total medium (vitreous humor plus erythrocytes)as a turbid medium and apply Monte Carlo simulation. Then, we calculate the parameters characterizing vision loss due to vitreous hemorrhage. This work shows that the increase of the volume fraction of erythrocytes results in a decrease of the total transmittance of the vitreous body and an increase in the radius of maximum transmittance, the width of the circular strip of bright area, and the radius of the shadow area

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Tarek Al-Saeed and El-Sayed El-Zaiat "Modeling of vision loss due to vitreous hemorrhage by Monte Carlo simulation," Journal of Biomedical Optics 19(8), 085009 (1 August 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.19.8.085009

Published: 1 August 2014

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