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External Eye Imaging

The demand for anterior segment photography is considerably less than for retinal imaging, but this is an important technique for the documentation of anterior segment disease, and should be available in every advanced eye clinic.

Edgbaston Eye Clinic boasts one of the most advanced ocular Camera, the KOWA 3D Camera.

Corneal Topography and Tomography

Visionix Imaging Device

Corneal Topography
Best practice management of keratoconus, including monitoring for disease progression, requires serial corneal tomography assessment. Corneal topography is also use for fitting of lenses, pre-op assessment for laser eye surgery.

At Edgbaston Eye Clinic, we specialise in fitting complex contact lenses and corneal topography is an invaluable tool to enable us achieve the best contact lens fit. We also use corneal topography to do pre-op laser assessment.

Corneal and Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

Overview
OCT uses interferometry to provide high resolution cross-sectional images of the cornea and anterior segment in a non-invasive manner. Anterior segment OCT is similar to posterior segment OCT although longer wavelengths light sources are more commonly used

Selected indications and requirements
The indications for anterior segment OCT are increasing rapidly and access to this modality is recommended for subspecialty eye clinics at tertiary referral centres. In glaucoma clinics, anterior segment OCT can be used for direct visualization of the anterior chamber angle, especially in patients with primary angle closure, and also for the diagnosis of patients with plateau iris configuration

In corneal and external disease clinics, it can be used to measure peripheral corneal thickness at multiple locations or the depth of anterior stromal corneal scarring useful for planning corneal transplantation surgery.

Retinal imaging

KOWA Imaging Technology

Colour fundus photograph
Specially modified cameras may be used to acquire photographs of the ocular fundus.
In combination with light filters and injections of intravenous contrast material, fundus cameras can be used to perform fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) and indocyanine green angiography (ICG). In combination with light filters alone, they can also be used to perform monochromatic imaging and fundus autofluorescence.
In the UK, a wide range of fundus cameras are available with the KOWA 3D camera as one of the best. At Edgbaston Eye Clinic patients can see the internal eye in 3D. It is an amazing experience!
The ability to acquire colour photographs of the ocular fundus is an essential part of an advanced eye examination. Colour fundus photography is essential to the diagnosis and monitoring of most posterior segment diseases as well as for disease screening (e.g. as part of the national diabetic retinopathy screening programme in the UK).

 

Fundus AutoFluorescence (FAF)

Many structures in the posterior segment possess innate fluorescent properties or “fundus autofluorescence” (FAF), that is, they fluoresce even in the absence of any exogenous contrast agent.

Blue-peak autofluorescence system (Heidelberg Engineering), with an excitation wavelength of 488nm. The Spectralis Heidelberg OCT has got one of the best autofluorescence module in all the imaging devices.

FAF imaging is an essential requirement for highly specialised retinal clinics. It plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients with inherited retinal disease and in the assessment of patient with toxic retinopathies (e.g. hydroxychloroquine retinopathy).

It also has an emerging role in the diagnosis and monitoring of geographic atrophy in patients with “dry” AMD.

Ocular Coherence Tomography (OCT)

The latest OCT Imaging Device

OCT provides high-resolution images of the neurosensory retina in a non-invasive manner. OCT is analogous to ultrasonography, but measures light waves rather than sound waves.

Each OCT device incorporates image analysis software that provides measurement of retinal thickness via automated detection (“segmentation”) of the inner and outer retinal boundaries. Using these techniques, it is possible to measure retinal thickness at multiple locations and to construct retinal thickness maps corresponding to the Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) subfields.

Access to OCT imaging is an essential requirement for high quality eye care service. OCT imaging plays a central role in the detection, diagnosis, and long-term monitoring of nearly all posterior segment diseases. It also plays an important role in the assessment of unexplained visual loss in patients with normal biomicroscopic examination, particularly when combined with FAF imaging.

CT (Optical Coherence Tomography) has truly revolutionized eye care in the world

Edgbaston Eye Clinic is equipped with one of the most advanced OCT scanners

Eye Conditions
  • Retinal Detachment
  • Dry Eye Syndrome
  • Wet Macular Degeneration
  • Dry Macular Degeneration
  • Blepharitis
  • Cataract
  • Glaucoma
  • Diabetic Eye Disease
  • Vein Occlusion (Eye Stroke)
  • Keratoconus
  • Age related macular degeneration (AMD)
  • Epiretinal membrane
Diagnostics
  • Glaucoma Premium Module
  • Eye Pressure Measurement
  • Ocular Coherence Tomography
  • Digital Pachymetry
  • Digital Slit Lamp
  • Humphrey Threshold Visual Field Analyser 3 HFA 840
  • Daytona Optos
Services
  • Punctum Plugs
  • Red Eye
  • Glaucoma Investigation
  • Medical Retina Clinic
  • Dry Eye Clinic
  • Ophthalmic Imaging
  • YAG Laser Capsulotomy
  • Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty (SLT)

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Edgbaston Eye Clinic

Edgbaston Eye Clinic

38 Harborne Rd, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3EB

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