Ahmed implant coated with poly(2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine) inhibits foreign body reactions in rabbit eyes
Fig 3
Methods for measuring average fibrotic wall thickness.
(A) Masson’s trichrome staining of a microsection across the midline of the implant. The blue box indicates the surgical site. (B) 8× magnified image of the blue box in Fig A. Six parts of fibrotic capsule around the implant were selected. (C) 125× magnified image of a red box marked with the asterisk in Fig B. The fibrotic wall thickness was measured by averaging the length of the thinnest and thickest lines. The final mean data were collected by averaging the values corresponding to each of the six parts (six red boxes in Fig B).