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Operating in the dark: a night-vision system for surgery in retinas susceptible to light damage.
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) - 1 May 2008
Komáromy András M, Acland Gregory M, Aguirre Gustavo D
Abstract excerpt
A standard operating microscope was modified with a bandpass infrared filter in the light path and infrared image intensifiers for each of the 2 eyepieces. We evaluated this system for subretinal injections in normal control dogs and those with a mutation in the rhodopsin gene. Rhodopsin-mutant dogs are a model for human autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa, and their retinas degenerate faster when exposed to...
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