Smartphone photography helps eye disease diagnosis: NAMSR Investigates

ARLINGTON, Va. - Sept. 25, 2013 - PRLog -- A US team has devised a smartphone system for capturing high quality photos of retinas to help diagnose eye diseases. The cheap and easy-to-use system could bring the advantages of affordable telemedicine to ophthalmology clinics.

The researchers, from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, describe the new system and how they tested it in a recent online issue of Journal of Ophthalmology.

The study evaluated the smartphone system's ability to capture photographs of the "fundus," or retina, in human and rabbit eyes.

The equipment comprises a smartphone running an inexpensive app and instruments that can be found in any ophthalmic practice.

Taking photographs of the retina is an essential part of any ophthalmology practice. But current methods rely on fundus cameras that cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Such high price tags are out of reach for many small practices, especially in poorer countries.

The advent of smartphones is starting to change this. These cheap, mobile devices, armed with cameras of increasing quality, are now being used more and more by ophthalmologists to document eye conditions in patients.

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