Understanding the Role of Retinal Imaging in Modern Optometry
Retinal imaging has moved from being a nice extra to a practical part of everyday eye care in many optometry practices. For patients, it often looks simple enough: a few seconds staring into a camera, a flash or two, and the appointment moves on. Behind that brief moment is one of the most useful tools in modern optometry, a way to document the back of the eye with a level of detail that used to be difficult to capture outside a specialist setting. What makes retinal ima