Alexander Walsh, M.D.

Optical Coherence Tomography uses light waves to ’slice’ through the eye in a manner similar to ultrasound. More advanced, Fourier Domain OCT did away with moving parts to significantly boost performance. Current systems acquire more than 50 times as much data faster than a patient can blink an eye.

Coupled with proprietary Doheny software, the system will be able to accurately recognize pre-defined structures and automatically diagnose a host of eye diseases. It pinpoints minute lesions, reconstructs optic nerve topography, and creates retinal vessel maps for alignment of scans taken over time. FD OCT has many applications beyond ophthalmology. Doheny is proud to be at the forefront of the development of this technology that promises to help millions of people with a variety of health concerns.

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Precise Diagnostics

Doheny scientists are helping to solve one of the most persistent problems in ophthalmology: How to consistently and accurately diagnose retinal diseases. Eye doctors have struggled for many years to find a way to capture, process, and quantify images of the eye. In the era of film photography, minute retinal structures were difficult to measure with accuracy, and even experts often disagreed on diagnosis. Despite modern computers and digital imaging, these problems have persisted today in computer systems that are no smarter than their human counterparts. Now, a complete, automated system is becoming available that will deliver precise diagnostics – helping nip many eye diseases in the bud.

To create high-resolution 3D retinal images, the revolutionary new diagnostics system uses FD OCT technology. Coupled with proprietary Doheny software, it will automatically scan and measure to diagnose eye disease with unprecedented accuracy. Useful to expert physicians and allied health personnel, the system requires little training and will provide immediate and clinically relevant point-of-service results.