OCT Interpretation for Glaucoma | 合法醫療器材資訊網

2021年7月15日—OCTallowsclinicianstomonitorforglaucomatousstructuraldamageinvolvingtheopticnerve,peripapillaryRNFLandmacula,aswellasto ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is truly an engineering marvel, with scan resolutions ever-increasing, wider areas of tissue imageable than ever before and more layers of the eye included in every new instrument iteration. It’s been cleverly described as an “optical biopsy.”1 That box sitting in the special testing room at our clinic is able to biopsy in vivo tissue using light. Not only is that cool, but just think of how few other medical specialties have access to a quick, accurate, painless and noninvasive “biopsy” of the organ they are caring for? 

Let’s briefly review where this amazing technology came from, where it is now and where it’s headed, then review best practices on how to use OCT to diagnose and manage glaucoma. 

The concept of OCT was first proposed in 1971, but it took another 20 years for the first optical coherence tomo...