21 July 2009

ANU moves past the iris

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The ANU has announced their work on pupillography (multifocal pupillography even).

Leaving aside the flashy iris it seems there’s much that can be gleaned from the pupil:

    Researchers at the ARC Vision Centre and The Australian National University led by Dr Ted Maddess and Dr Andrew James are pioneering the use of multifocal pupillography for accurate and painless detection and monitoring of diseases such as glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. Together these are thought to affect around 100 million people globally, aged 50 and over.

    The technique relies on a feedback loop of nerve signals, which flow from each eye to the brain and back again to both pupils of the eyes by a secondary pathway, Dr Maddess explains.

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johnboy said :

Hey! that’s my exquisite eyebrow in the photo! (not the one in the media release mind you)

There’s not much about me that’s pretty but my eyebrows are top notch!

I wonder what other anonymous parts of anatomy are circulating the internet…

Look into my eyes, your nuts are paralysed!!!

why does it feel like the eye follows you when you move away from the computer??

we knew jb was one-eyed… ; )

When Mr Jessieduck’s eyebrows start looking like that I make subtle John Howard comments and leave the tweezers out.

Hey! that’s my exquisite eyebrow in the photo! (not the one in the media release mind you)

There’s not much about me that’s pretty but my eyebrows are top notch!

They have also used exactly the same photo on their press release for research into multifocal outofcontroleyebrowography.

this is brilliant – i was aware, through a related working relationship with dr james, of this research some years ago – it is certainly no overnight success! good upon them, and another research breakthrough for the anu and canberra talent.

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