BARCELONA, Spain — A dome-shaped lens design integrated in a novel ocular surface imaging system provides a complete view of the cornea, conjunctiva, sclera and lid margins, allowing for precise detection of abnormalities.
Ordinary slit lamp lenses can produce the bokeh effect, Vito Romano, MD, said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting, not allowing ophthalmologists to focus on the apex and on the limbus and bulbar conjunctiva at the same time.
The new lens, which won Romano an ESCRS Pioneer Research Award, is shaped to fit the entire ocular surface from