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SUBMITTER: Airaksinen PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2604996 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Airaksinen P Juhani PJ Doro Stephen S Veijola Jukka J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20081209 50
The nerve fiber layer of the human retina is made up of the retinal segments of ganglion cell axons. Its geometry can be described mathematically as a fibration of a 2D domain: a partition of a certain region into smooth curves. Here, we present a simple family of curves that closely models the observed geometry of the nerve fiber layer. For each retina, the pattern depends on 2 parameters, A and B: A computer program determines A and B for a given retina and the theory matches the retina with a ...[more]