The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new instrument that takes digital images of tear film (a thin film that coats the eye that is made up of oil and water). The investigators are interested in measuring how the thickness of the tear film varies through time. The goal is to develop a technique that may enable non-invasive evaluation of Dry Eye Disease for future clinical diagnosis.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
2
Digital images of tear film
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York, United States
Thickness of lipid layers on patient cornea (nm)
Multiple measures taken within one eye blink, through optical coherence tomography, to map thickness. Each individual measure taken contributes to a computed map of lipid-layer thickness.
Time frame: participants will be seen once within a one year period, on average within 1 month
Thickness of aqueous layers on patient cornea (um)
Multiple measures taken within one eye blink, through optical coherence tomography, to map thickness. Each individual measure taken contributes to a computed map of aqueous-layer thickness.
Time frame: participants will be seen once within a one year period, on average within 1 month
Thickness maps dynamics
Measured through optical coherence tomography
Time frame: participants will be seen once within a one year period, on average within 1 month
Optical aberrations
Measured through optical coherence tomography
Time frame: participants will be seen once within a one year period, on average within 1 month
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