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Building Affordable, Durable, Medium-Fidelity Ballistic Gel Phantoms for Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Block Training

Ultrasound phantoms - alternatives to live human tissue - give learners the opportunity to practice ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia without ...

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Investigators have reported reduced visibility of the cone photoreceptors overlying drusen using adaptive optics (AO) imaging techniques. Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. First, the disease-related deformation of the photoreceptor outer segment (OS) may reduce its ability to act as a wave guide, thus decreasing the cell's familiar reflectance pattern. Second, drusen could disorient the photoreceptors away from the eye's pupil, reducing the amount of light reflected back out the pupil. In this work, we use directional OCT (dOCT) images of drusen in AMD patients to measure the respective contributions of these deforming and disorienting factors.

Brennan P. Marsh-Armstrong

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Building Affordable, Durable, Medium-Fidelity Ballistic Gel Phantoms for Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Block Training