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SYMPOSIUM
Year : 2011  |  Volume : 59  |  Issue : 7  |  Page : 59-68

Role of imaging in glaucoma diagnosis and follow-up


1 Department of Ophthalmology, Hamilton Glaucoma Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
2 Department of Ophthalmology, Hamilton Glaucoma Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; and L V Prasad Eye Institute, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, India

Correspondence Address:
Linda M Zangwill
Department of Ophthalmology, Hamilton Glaucoma Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 9500, USA

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Source of Support: Dr. Zangwill EY11008, from the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, Conflict of Interest: Research support, equipment for LM Zangwill: Carl Zeiss Meditec (Dublin, CA); Heidelberg Engineering (Heidelberg, Germany); Topcon Medical Systems (Paramus, NJ Optvue Inc. (Fremont CA)


PMID: 21150036

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The purpose of the review is to provide an update on the role of imaging devices in the diagnosis and follow-up of glaucoma with an emphasis on techniques for detecting glaucomatous progression and the newer spectral domain optical coherence tomography instruments. Imaging instruments provide objective quantitative measures of the optic disc and the retinal nerve fiber layer and are increasingly utilized in clinical practice. This review will summarize the recent enhancements in confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, scanning laser polarimetry, and optical coherence tomography with an emphasis on how to utilize these techniques to manage glaucoma patients and highlight the strengths and limitations of each technology. In addition, this review will briefly describe the sophisticated data analysis strategies that are now available to detect glaucomatous change overtime.


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