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Diagnostic Instruments for Glaucoma Detection
Teik-Cheng Lim, U. Rajendra Acharya, Subhagata Chattopadhyay,
Jasjit S. Suri, and Eddie Y. K. Ng
10.1 Introduction
Glaucoma is a dreaded eye disease wherein the optic nerve is incrementally damaged. The
instruments for diagnosis of glaucoma reviewed in this chapter can be broadly catego-
rized into primarily mechanics-based and primarily optics-based instruments.
10.2 Mechanics-Based Instruments
Tonometry is the only mechanics-based glaucoma detection procedure. The following
sub-sections review the various types of tonometry instruments employed in practice.
CONTENTS
10.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ ...