Taking the "guesswork" out of glaucoma clinical management with novel imaging
- Research Opportunity
- PhD, Masters by Research, Honours
- Number of Honour Places Available
- 1
- Department
- Surgery
- Location
- Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
Primary Supervisor | Number | Webpage | |
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Dr Zhichao Wu | wu.z@unimelb.edu.au | Personal web page |
Project Details
The clinical management of glaucoma seeks to prevent patients from experiencing visual disability from the progressive degeneration of retinal ganglion cells. This task is especially difficult by the lack of effective methods to detect and characterise disease progression accurately and meaningfully. Current clinical tests are currently so variable that clinicians are often left with a great deal of “guesswork” in the clinical management of glaucoma. Optical coherence tomography is a modern clinical imaging technique that could accurately detect disease progression and predict long-term outcomes, given its ability to non-invasively visualise the retina three-dimensionally at near-cellular resolution. This powerful technology could be exploited to transform the clinical management of glaucoma patients.
This project will involve development of this imaging technique and analytical methods and understanding its relation to patient-reported measures of visual disability to understand the clinical relevance of its results.
This project is conducted in Centre for Eye Research Australia, Glaucoma Research Laboratory.
School Research Themes
Research Opportunities
PhD, Masters by Research, Honours
Students who are interested in joining this project will need to consider their elegibility as well as other requirements before contacting the supervisor of this research
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Department
Research Node
Surgery, Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear HospitalMDHS Research library
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