�Visual theater of operations tests are widely victimized by eye doctors and neurologists. By determining the health of the retina, optic face and the visual pathway throughout the brain, the test bum uncover glaucoma and conditions such as optic neuritis or head damage. Essential to undergo before ane can ram a cable car or fly a sheet, the ocular field test is besides used to pinpoint neurologic damage after an accident or surgery.
Today's visual field try is hard to pass, especially among those wHO need it the most. Sitting at the machine with the chin propped up on a shelf, a patient must fix their eye at a target and then at the same time press a button when stimulated with light. "The test is uncomfortable, non entirely exact, and hard for the elderly, children and people with disabilities," says Dr. Arieh S. Solomon, Head of Experimental Ophthalmology at Tel Aviv University's Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger Eye Research Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine.
As an eye research doctor, Dr. Solomon thought there could be a better solution and has recently developed a discovery technology -- a ocular field quiz that comes in a compact device worn over the eyes as goggles, and which solves the limitations of the current standard test.
A Visual Improvement
The new Tel Aviv University-developed device -- the VIP Virtual Perimetry -- removes the physical limitations of the traditional bulky machine used today. The new device is able-bodied to instantly study and measure a patient's inborn reflex, when presented with a visual stimulant. Equally exciting, the new device removes previously high school rates of false negatives and positives answers, says Dr. Solomon, who integrated three technologies to make grow the VIP goggles.
"Past the age of 60, every soul has to go for this test every two years before renewing their driver's licence," he says. "People bore from it quickly and it reports false information on a large number of people who are unable to sit still in the machine," he adds. The new cost-efficient goggle twist can be connected and used anywhere there is a reckoner hook-up, regular in development countries, or at a patient's bedside while under care.
Endorsed by International Eye Doctors
Patented by Ramot, the technology change arm of Tel Aviv University, the VIP was created and tested in a clinical setting by the Israeli company Iview Ltd. It could be ready for commercialization in the U.S. within a year, if given the right financial backing, says Dr. Solomon, who also received reinforcement from the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Trade and Industry to develop the device.
The VIP has been tested on eye doctors who take given it rave reviews during the annual group meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), an international organization. "The VIP was appreciated by all of the doctors who wanted to test it for themselves. They know the problems with the current visual field test and welcome a new solution," concludes Dr. Solomon.
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