Digital scan of the eyes reveals health condition

In terms of diagnostic imaging, the eye is a unique part of the human body. Using optical coherence tomography OCT technology, 40,000 scans are produced within 1.2 seconds, with a total volume of 65 million voxels.  Voxel is a contraction of "volume" and "element" and refers to a grid point in a three-dimensional grid and overall to a huge volume of information about a patient's retina.

The OCT data are analysed using automated algorithms generated on the basis of Artificial Intelligence. A digital image of the retina provides enormous amount of data, offering information about a person's entire personal and medical Life Data, not only about existing or potential diseases, but also about lifestyle.

The retina shows how old a person is, their gender, smoking habits, blood pressure and whether they have diabetes, or at least an increased risk of developing it. Diabetes and high blood-pressure are very common conditions and in many patients, result in long-term retinal damage, incorporating these new technologies into clinical care will give accurate picture of patients general health for customised treatments.
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