Cuadrado, AlexanderSánchez Brea, Luis MiguelTorcal Milla, Francisco JoséQuiroga, Juan AntonioGómez Pedrero, Jose Antonio2023-06-172023-06-172019-05-012156-708510.1364/BOE.10.002161https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13349© 2019 Optical Society of America. European Fund for Regional Development (EFRD-FEDER, EU), and the Spanish Government’s Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) belonging to Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) (grant DPI2016-75272-R). We wish to thank Dr. Javier Alda for his useful comments and his help in the elaboration of this manuscript.We present in this work a numerical model for characterizing the scattering properties of the human lens. After analyzing the scattering properties of two main scattering particles actually described in the literature through FEM (finite element method) simulations, we have modified a Monte Carlo's bulk scattering algorithm for computing ray scattering in non-sequential ray tracing. We have implemented this ray scattering algorithm in a layered model of the human lens in order to calculate the scattering properties of the whole lens. We have tested our algorithm by simulating the classic experiment carried out by Van der Berg et al for measuring "in vitro" the angular distribution of forward scattered light by the human lens. The results show the ability of our model to simulate accurately the scattering properties of the human lens.engAtribución 3.0 Españajournal articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1364/BOE.10.002161https://www.osapublishing.orgopen access535Light-scatteringNuclear cataractMultilamellar bodiesCrystallinProteinParticlesDensityÓptica (Física)2209.19 Óptica Física