Editorial: Laser flare (cell) photometry: 20 years already.

摘要

Two decades ago, Sawa et al. f 1] published an article entitled "New quantitative method to determine protein concentration and cell number in the aqueous in vivo" in the Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology. This work represented a milestone in the evolution of measurement of intra-ocular inflammation. The laser flare (cell) photometer (LF(C)P) became commercially available in 1989-1990 and this technology promoted flare from a qualitative parameter to the only quantitative modality we have to measure intraocular inflammation.