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No dilating required with this pocket-sized retina camera
A team of researchers has developed a cheap, portable camera that can photograph the retina without the need for pupil-dilating eye drops.
New York: A team of researchers has developed a cheap, portable camera that can photograph the retina without the need for pupil-dilating eye drops.
Made out of simple parts mostly available online, the camera's total cost is about $185.
"As residents seeing patients in the hospital, there are often times when we are not allowed to dilate patients -- neurosurgery patients for example," said Dr Bailey Shen, an ophthalmology resident at University of Illinois' Chicago College of Medicine.
"There are times when we find something abnormal in the back of the eye but it is not practical to wheel the patient all the way over to the outpatient eye clinic just for a photograph," Shen added.
The prototype camera can be carried in your pocket and can take pictures of the back of the eye without eye drops. The pictures can be shared with other doctors, or attached to the patient's medical record.
The camera is based on the Raspberry Pi 2 computer, a low-cost, single-board computer designed to teach children how to build and programme computers.
A handful of other components -- a lens, a small display screen and several cables -- make up the rest of the camera.
