Optical coherence tomography imaging provides real-time information about eye structure.
Iowa’s Spencer Daily Reporter (11/13, Todd) reports that “optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging method which uses light to scan an eye’s retina and optic disc” to provide “detailed, real-time information about the structure of an eye” through “a non-invasive, non-contact optical biopsy of the retina.” These scans, “which may be performed on undilated pupils,” can assist in the “diagnosis and management” of “cystoid macular edema, central serous retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, macular holes, and glaucoma.”