Research Article

Preliminary Investigation of the Mechanical Anisotropy of the Normal Human Corneal Stroma

Table 2

Comparison of LSTM and HSTM in eye pairs.

ParametersHorizontalVertical value

LSTM(MPa)1.17 ± 0.431.32 ± 0.500.035
HSTM(MPa)43.59 ± 7.9651.26 ± 8.23≤0.001