Tracking Optical Coherence Tomography

University of Pittsburgh

Status: Completed

Conditions: Macular Degeneration; Glaucoma; Choroidal Disease; Diabetic Retinopathy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00343603

0309019

2R44EY013036 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate an investigational system that may allow doctors to show images of the different parts inside the eye that show greater detail than current equipment can produce.

Full description

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate an investigational system that may allow doctors to make images of the parts inside the eye that show greater detail than current equipment can produce.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy individuals (this includes women of child-bearing potential) who are familiar with vision experiments and ophthalmic equipment, all over 18 years.
• Subjects will have a retinal screening if they are over 50 years old or have a known risk factor for eye disease, such as family history of age related macular degeneration or cardiovascular disease.
• Patients with retinal and choroidal disease: age related maculopathy or age related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma.

Exclusion criteria

• Over 85 years old