Main description:

Medical technology is a fast growing field. This new title gives a comprehensive review of modern optical technologies alongside their clinical deployment. It bridges the technology and clinical domains and will be suitable in both technical and clinical environments. It introduces and develops basic physical methods (in optics, photonics, and metrology) and their applications in the design of optical systems for use in medical technology with a special focus on ophthalmology. Medical applications described in detail demonstrate the advantage of utilizing optical-photonic methods. Exercises and solutions for each chapter help understand and apply basic principles and methods. An associated website run by the authors will include slides to facilitate the teaching/training of this material, and typical images collected by the described methods, eg videos of endoscopy or navigation, OCT,etc.

Contents:

PART I 1. Structure and Function 2. Optics of the Human Eye 3. Visual Disorders and Major Eye Diseases PART II 4. Introduction to Ophthalmic Diagnosis and Imaging 5. Determination of the Refractive Status of the Eye 6. Optical Visualization, Imaging, and Structural Analysis 7. Optical Coherence Methods for Three-Dimensional Visualization and Structural Analysis 8. Functional Diagnostics PART III 9. Laser-Tissue Interaction 10. Laser Systems for Treatment of Eye Diseases and Refractive Errors PART IV A. Basics of Optics B. Basics of Laser Systems C. Used Variables and Abbreviations