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From smartphone to “eyephone”
Upfront is a quick look at the latest developments from Stanford Medicine
“Think Instagram for the eyes,” says assistant professor of ophthalmology Robert Chang, MD. His team has created inexpensive adapters that make it easy to use a smartphone to capture high-quality images of the eye — one for the front surface of the eye, another for the inside view.
It matters because the usual eye-imaging instruments are expensive and hard to use, and even ophthalmologists who have the equipment and know-how find capturing and sharing the images slow going.
Physicians who’d like to test the adapters can e-mail the team at eyegotech@gmail.com.