The Cell Phones as Devices for the Ocular Fundus Documentation
Authors:
J. Němčanský 1,2; A. Kopecký 1; J. Timkovič 1,2; P. Mašek
Authors‘ workplace:
Oční klinika, Fakultní nemocnice Ostrava, přednosta MUDr. Petr Mašek, CSc., FEBO
1; Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Lékařská fakulta, Katedra kraniofaciálních oborů, vedoucí katedry doc. MUDr. Pavel Komínek, Ph. D., MBA
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Published in:
Čes. a slov. Oftal., 70, 2014, No. 6, p. 239-241
Category:
Original Article
Overview
Objective:
To present our experience with “smart phones” when examining and documenting human eyes.
Methods:
From September to October 2013 fifteen patients’ (8 men, 7 women) eye fundus was examined, an average age during the examination was 58 year (ranging from 20-65 years). The photo-documentation was performed with dilated pupils (tropicamid hydrochloridum 1% eye drops) with mobile phone Samsung Galaxy Nexus with the operating system Android 4.3 (Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA) and iPhone 4 with the operating system 7.0.4 (Apple Inc., Loop Cupertino, CA, USA), and with 20D lens (Volk Optical Inc., Mentor, OH, USA).
Results:
The images of the retina taken with a mobile phone and the spherical lens are of a very good quality, precise and reproducible. Learning this technique is easy and fast, the learning curve is steep.
Conclusion:
Photo-documentation of retina with a mobile phone is a safe, time-saving, easy-to-learn technique, which may be used in a routine ophthalmologic practice. The main advantage of this technique is availability, small size and easy portability of the devices.
Key words:
retina, smart phones, fundus photography, photodocumentation
Sources
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2. Maamari, R.N., Keenan, J.D., Fletcher, D.A., et al.: A Mobile Phone-based Retinal Camera for Portable Wide Field Imaging. Br J Ophthalmol, 2014; 98(4): 438–441.
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