The slit lamp exam is a standard diagnostic procedure, which is also known as biomicroscopy. A slit lamp combines a microscope with a very bright light. The slit lamp exam usually forms part of a ...

The slit lamp is an instrument used to examine the health of the front portion of the eye. It is called a slit lamp because it uses a slit beam of light to help visualize the ocular structures in a ...

Another name for this instrument is "Bio-Microscope", which is a more self-explanatory term, and definitely sounds more modern and scientific. The instrument consists of a binocular-type eyepiece for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A few years ago, Primary Care Optometry News published an article by Matt Kelleman, OD, a practitioner from ...

With a new Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (FD OCT) device, SL SCAN-1 (Topcon Europe Medical BV, Capelle a/d IJssel, The Netherlands), integrated into a slit-lamp OCT, scans can be ...