Equivalence of Born and eikonal identities

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I am required to show that
(i)in the upper limit of very high energies, the Born and eikonal identities are identical.
(ii)that the eikonal amplitude satisfies the optical theorem.

Regarding (i) I think it will involve changing from an exponential to a trig(Euler's theorem) but I could be wrong. The textbook says that sinχ=χ (I think that χ is the profile function).

Regarding (ii) I am clueless. I am trying to do postgrad physics after a period of 6 years since undergrad!
Please help!
 
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Ok I have just tried what I thought would be right and failed. Can anyone reference me to a text on this stuff that is understandable?