CenterVue launches imaging perimeter

LAS VEGAS – CenterVue announced the U.S. launch of its Compass Fundus Automated Perimetry system during a company-sponsored event here at Vision Expo West.

The technique images the retina during visual field testing, “enabling a true structure and function analysis,” the company stated in a press release.

Murray Fingeret, OD, spoke at the event on behalf of CenterVue, explaining how the Compass system provides both standard 24-2 visual field results and true color confocal images of the retina.

Fingeret said that the Compass provides real-time retinal tracking at a rate of 25 images per second and allows precise monitoring of eye movements during visual field testing. He added that automatic refraction compensation eliminates the need for a trial lens correction during testing. He said the instrument provides correlation between structure and function.

Also at the event, Fingeret, along with Jeffrey D. Gerson, OD, FAAO, and Donald J. Siegel, OD, highlighted the clinical utility of CenterVue’s Eidon confocal scanning LED for automated retinal imaging.

Fingeret explained that the Eidon uses white light illumination to provide true color imaging. He said it “stitches together” five images to create a mosaic, providing up to 150 degrees. He added that the images are less affected by media opacities, and instrument’s the range is -12 D to +15 D.

Siegel said images can be taken through a poorly dilated pupil, and the exams are automated.

Gerson noted that the confocality of the Eidon improves resolution. – by Nancy Hemphill, ELS, FAAO

Disclosures: Fingeret, Gerson and Siegel are consultants for CenterVue.