WIDEFIELD FUNDUS MONTAGE IMAGES WITH SMARTPHONE: Step by Step Illustrated Teaching Manual
WIDEFIELD FUNDUS MONTAGE IMAGES WITH SMARTPHONE: Step by Step Illustrated Teaching Manual 1 Keywords : Smartphone, Fundus, camera, Wide field, Panorama, Photoshop, Montage. Introduction Fundus Imaging is an important aspect for a retina setup. Conventional fundus cameras available in market are very expensive. Widefield fundus camera is much more expensive than conventional ones. Further, the conventional fundus cameras are bulky and cannot be easily transported. Thus, they are of no use to immobile patients and to those who cannot be seated in front of the equipment. The idea of using mobile phone’s camera for ophthalmic imaging is not new. Smartphone has been described for ophthalmic photography few years ago 2 . Later smartphone was described to take fundus photos 3 . Few authors have devised adapters which help in assisting smartphone fundus imaging 4 . Here we describe a technique to obtain Widefield fundus images using smart phone and a 20D le...