Tele-transmission of Stereoscopic Images of the Optic Nerve Head in Glaucoma via Internet

摘要

An inexpensive system is described to visualize stereoscopic photographs of the optic nerve head on computer displays and to transmit such images via the Internet. Stereoscopic images of glaucoma patients were digitized and stored in a file format (joint photographic stereoimage; jps) containing all three-dimensional information for both eyes on an Internet Web site (www.trizax.com). A conventional personal computer system gave a flicker-free stereo visualization of true-color images with high resolution. Stereoscopic visualization techniques provided cup depth, neuroretinal rim shape, and slope of the inner wall of the optic nerve head that were better perceived and interpreted than monoscopic images.