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Published on: January 15, 2013
Aphakic contact lens use for improved handheld optical coherence tomography imaging in pediatric aphakic patients
Michael S Quist1, Frank L Brodie1, Cindy X Cai1
1Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
Abstract:
Handheld optical coherence tomography (OCT) makes it possible to acquire intraoperative and clinical imaging in infants and children for whom standard OCT is not possible. In patients with a retinal pathology who are left aphakic after surgery, however, image clarity is affected by insufficient refractive correction with handheld OCT. We describe a technique for supplementing the refractive power of the handheld OCT device with an aphakic contact lens to improve image clarity.

