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Engineers receive $2.3 million to develop better glaucoma test |
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 Photo by Patrick Cummings Click on photo for hi-res version. |
Biomedical engineers at The University of
Texas at Austin have received a National Eye Institute grant to
investigate an imaging method for detecting the earliest signs of
glaucoma so physicians can reduce how often the disease produces vision
loss or blindness.
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Pictured at left:Thomas Milner, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, who
provides technological expertise on optical coherence tomography for
the glaucoma grant research. At left is an image of
a "peripapillary
birefringence map" used to diagnose glaucoma.
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 Photo by Patrick Cummings Click on photo for hi-res version
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Pictured at
left behind lasers and other components of the Optical Coherence
Tomography machine used for eye imaging: Biomedical engineering faculty
H. Grady Rylander III (at center, striped shirt) and Thomas Milner (far
right), with graduate students Jordan Dwelle, Roberto Aranibar, Badr
Elmaanaoui, and Jesung Park (from left to right).
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