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Konan introduces objective visual field analyzer
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SAN ANTONIO – Konan previewed the ObjectiveField analyzer here at the American Academy of Optometry meeting.
Patients undergoing testing see a binocular presentation of shapes, “but each eye is stimulated and tested separately for 100% objective full-threshold visual field testing,” Ian McMillan, Konan vice president and director of sales and marketing, told Primary Care Optometry News.
McMillan said the company acquired the technology 4 weeks prior to the meeting from the Australia National University. It is FDA-approved and will be available some time in 2019.
McMillan said the 7-minute bilateral, full-threshold test is “great for patients who have difficulty taking visual fields. They look generally in the center of the screen, and the machine does the rest. There’s an inactive fixation point, but fixation isn’t critical.”
The patient is not required to press a response button.
He noted that the database includes information on 17,000 test cases. – by Nancy Hemphill, ELS, FAAO
Disclosure: McMillan is employed by Konan.