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Published on November 5, 2002,
in the Gwinnett Daily Post
New device improves LASIK surgery outcomes
By Laura Ingram
Norcross-Using a new technology called the Visualizer would have
saved Jyoti Patel an extra eye procedure.
After getting LASIK surgery, in which a laser reshapes a patient's
cornea, 18 months ago, Patel was amazed with the results. During
her drive home, she could see billboards without eye contacts or
glasses.
The problem was that, while reading, Patel saw king of an echo
of words.
"It didn't bother me that much, I didn't see two people or two
cars while driving. It was just while reading. It was just inconvenient,"
Patel said.
The Visualizer would have saved her from that experience and the
six-month wait to get it corrected with another LASIK procedure
provided free by Emory Vision in Atlanta.
This new computerized devise, made by InterWave, simulates images
that would be produced by the patient's eyes before and after the
surgery.
Atlanta resident Lane Austin benefited from the Visualizer before
her second procedure.
"It was amazing. It actually showed me how I would see," Austin
said. The Visualizer was offered as a part of Austin's LASIK procedure
at Emory Vision.
The Visualizer depends on the InterWave Scanner to work. The scanner
takes up to 80 measurements across the different regions of the
pupil. The Visualizer reconstructs how the eyes see the images and
displays them on a high resolution computer monitor or visor.
Being scanned is like playing a video game, suggested Dr Kenneth
Thompson, medical director and CEO of Emory Vision.
"The patient uses a joystick to alight a light into a target and
then click a button when the alignment is satisfactory. The test
takes about three minutes per eye," Thompson explained.
Some patients experience glare and halos at night, a common side
effect when Thompson does not use the InterWave scanner and Visualizer
to customize LASIK procedures.
His staff had been using the scanning devise for about a year
and started using the Visualizer about three months ago. Thompson
said it is the only office in the Gwinnett area to offer the new
device.
Thompson helped develop the Visualizer and other InterWave technology
with researchers at General Electric, Harvard, MIT and the Schepens
Eye Institute in Boston.
"The Visualizer can be viewed by the doctor and the patient following
the exam to simulate images in daylight, dusk and nighttime conditions
with correction of the eye with and without glasses and following
InterWave LASIK surgery," Thompson said.
For more details, call 1-800-733-6673 or www.inviewvision.com.
* The practice changed its name to InView in 2004. Emory trained
surgeons Keith Thompson, MD and George Waring, MD, founded the practice
in 1994.
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