Book Review: Essentials of OCT in Ocular Disease

Editors: Amar Agarwal, FRCOphth and Dhivya Ashok Kumar, MD Publisher: Thieme – 245 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Ocular coherence tomography (OCT) is a relatively newer method of investigating eye disorders. It is now widely used by ophthalmologists and optometrists to perform high-resolution, micrometer-scale, cross-sectional imaging of ocular tissues in less time than before. OCT machines, such as the ones shown on page 4, 17 and 53 of this book, enable practitioners to do diagnosis, prognosis and management of ocular pathologies. OCT as a form of imaging utilizes low-coherence interferometry to create a two-dimensional image of optical scattering...

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