Ophthermometry: a method of measuring eye temperature for diagnosis and surgery

摘要

The use of ophthermometers in a new field of ophthermology in the passive detection of thermal discrepance in the eyes of a person and its relation to health impairment and/or alcohol and drug abuse. Ophthermology has many uses. It can be used to initially establish a baseline or normal temperature for reference in identifying future eye problems. Readings can be taken from the pupil iris area or the white of the eye from the optic nerve to the cornea. Taking eye temperature before eye surgery can determine whether blood flow is adequate to permit surgery. Eye surgery can be monitored to determine the extent surgical wounds have healed and when the cease medication. Eye temperature readings can determine the fit of contact lenses, especially in fitting abnormal distorted corneas. Eye socket temperature can be measured to detect infection after traume of eye removal. Eye temperature differential can indicate reduced carotid flow and early detection of risk of stroke. Temperature readings assist in determining the effeciency of drug therapy. They also indicate impairment from alcohol and/or drugs. Intensive research and development of infrared thermography instruments have provided accurate, rapid, stable and repeatable readings that are relatively insensitive to user technique, making eye temperature patterns and data a part of accepted diagnostic procedures.