The focus of this research is the investigation of the Ocular Surface Temperature (OST) in both healthy and pathological (e.g. age-related macular degeneration, eye dry syndrome and choroidal lesions) eyes by using Infrared Thermography (IR). Specifically, the temperature of different anatomical areas (or points) of the eye is measured by applying image processing procedures on the infrared images recorded. It is known that the pathogenesis of some ocular pathology is related to the variation of ocular blood perfusion, and thus to the temperatures of the anterior segment of the eye. Results demonstrated that thermography can provide quantitative documentation of these temperature measurements. Furthermore, thermography is a non-invasive, cheap, harmless and portable technique. The challenge is to make ocular thermography part of the daily diagnostic procedure by providing more and more reliable experimental data.
Ocular thermography: Investigation on some pathologies / Corvi, Andrea; Matteoli, Sara. - STAMPA. - 601:(2014), pp. 143-146. (Intervento presentato al convegno 14th Symposium on Experimental Stress Analysis and Materials Testing tenutosi a Timisoara (Romania) nel 23-25 maggio 2013) [10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.601.143].
Ocular thermography: Investigation on some pathologies
CORVI, ANDREA;MATTEOLI, SARA
2014
Abstract
The focus of this research is the investigation of the Ocular Surface Temperature (OST) in both healthy and pathological (e.g. age-related macular degeneration, eye dry syndrome and choroidal lesions) eyes by using Infrared Thermography (IR). Specifically, the temperature of different anatomical areas (or points) of the eye is measured by applying image processing procedures on the infrared images recorded. It is known that the pathogenesis of some ocular pathology is related to the variation of ocular blood perfusion, and thus to the temperatures of the anterior segment of the eye. Results demonstrated that thermography can provide quantitative documentation of these temperature measurements. Furthermore, thermography is a non-invasive, cheap, harmless and portable technique. The challenge is to make ocular thermography part of the daily diagnostic procedure by providing more and more reliable experimental data.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.