Optical Coherence Tomography of Ocular Diseases [Hardcover]

Carmen A. Puliafito MD (Author), Joel S. Schuman MD (Author), James G. Fujimoto PhD (Author), Michael R. Hee MS (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1996 | ISBN-10: 1556422954 | ISBN-13: 978-1556422959 | Edition: 1st

...clinicans from Tufts and an MIT researcher team up to explain OCT, which is a new non-invasive technique that can detect and monitor a wide variety of macular diseases...also provides a general guide to interpreting OCT images.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 374 pages
• Publisher: Slack Incorporated; 1st edition (January 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556422954
• ISBN-13: 978-1556422959
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,192,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joel S. Schuman, MD is the Eye and Ear Foundation Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology, the Eye and Ear Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Eye Center. He is also Professor of Bioengineering at the Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, and Professor in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh and a member of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Schuman graduated Columbia University and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He completed residency training at Medical College of Virginia and glaucoma fellowship at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. After just over a year on the Harvard faculty, he moved to New England Medical Center, Tufts University to co-found New England Eye Center, where he was Residency Director and Glaucoma and Cataract Service Chief. He is an inventor of optical coherence tomography (OCT), used world-wide for ocular diagnostics.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference for OCT, January 17, 2006

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Narciso Atienza Jr. (Quezon City, Phil.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Optical Coherence Tomography of Ocular Diseases (Hardcover)

This book is a more than adequate reference to OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) and its' applications to ocular diseases. The principles of OCT is a very good reference for understanding how the technology works. The OCT findings correlated with the fundus pictures and angiogram provide an excellent view of the pathology of the cases reviewed. A good reference to have for glaucoma and retinal specialist.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, more of an atlas than a text, January 13, 2008

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Ocular/Orbital Surgeon (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Optical Coherence Tomography of Ocular Diseases (Hardcover)

I'm surprised there aren't more OCT texts out there. I've had this book for quite some time now. It is a great resource with good pictures of fundus images of many disease states and correlates them with FA and OCT images. Often there are pre and post treatment pictures.

It may be outdated soon with some of the newer OCT technologies coming out, but I think the basics and OCT findings presented will not be significantly different.

The focus of the book is definitely on retinal disease although there is a chapter on OCT in management of glaucoma. For retinal disease, it is pretty comprehensive, usually showing multiple examples of any given disease.

I would highly recommend this book for those with an interest in OCT.
My ownly gripe with the book is that I felt that the authors should have developed a methodology for the systematic evaluation of an OCT...similar to how medical students are taught to read a chest x-ray. Oh well.