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This richly illustrated, comprehensive guide enables the reader to observe anatomy and identify ophthalmic disease with the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT). It is the most up-to-date atlas of OCT images, many of which have been obtained with the newer OCT technologies that offer excellent image quality and definition at a microscopic level. All of the major disease areas in ophthalmology are covered, including diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, uveitis, glaucoma, retinal vascular disease, and further hot topics are also considered. The chapters are written by leading international ophthalmologists from renowned academic centers who utilize OCT in their everyday practice, and the numerous high quality OCT images ensure that the reader will easily be able to follow the key issues. Optical Coherence Tomography has emerged as an innovative and powerful imaging technique that allows high-resolution, non-invasive, in vivo cross-sectional imaging in human tissue. This book, with its clinical emphasis, will have wide appeal for residents, fellows, and experienced practitioners in ophthalmology, as well as optometrists, medical students and graduates.

Ophthalmology & Optometry --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Optical coherence tomography. --- Eye --- Diseases --- Treatment. --- Eyeball --- Eyes --- Visual system --- OCT (Tomography) --- Face --- Photoreceptors --- Vision --- Interferometry --- Optical tomography --- Coherence (Optics) --- Ophthalmology. --- Radiology, Medical. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Radiology. --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation

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This book reviews recent important advances in the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in order to analyze neurodegeneration within the retina through the quantification of axonal loss. Detailed information is provided on the role of OCT as a promising tool for the evaluation of disease progression in numerous neurodegenerative disorders and as a biological marker of neuroaxonal injury. The disorders considered include multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, intracranial hypertension, Friedreich’s ataxia, schizophrenia, hereditary optic neuropathies, glaucoma, and amblyopia. Individual chapters are also devoted to OCT technique, new OCT technology in neuro-ophthalmology, OCT and pharmacological treatment, and the use of OCT in animal models. As well as being a valuable tool for diagnosis of many retinal diseases and monitoring of surgical and medical treatment, OCT allows study of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) containing the axons of the retinal ganglion cells, which form the optic nerves, chiasm, and optic tracts. Since retinal axons are nonmyelinated until they penetrate the lamina cribrosa, the RNFL is an ideal structure for visualization of any process of neurodegeneration, neuroprotection, or regeneration. It is for this reason that OCT has been applied in various areas of neurology over the past decade, becoming a hot topic and generating great enthusiasm among neurologists and ophthalmologists. By documenting the ability of OCT to provide key information on CNS diseases, this book illustrates convincingly that the eye is indeed the “window to the brain”.

Radiology, Medical. --- Ophthalmology & Optometry --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Nervous system --- Central nervous system --- Optical coherence tomography. --- Diseases --- Diagnosis. --- Tomography. --- OCT (Tomography) --- Nervous system, Central --- Medicine. --- Radiology. --- Neurology. --- Ophthalmology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Eye --- Neuropsychiatry --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Interferometry --- Optical tomography --- Coherence (Optics) --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Neurology .