
Jason Porter, Ph.D., at center, assistant professor of vision science and biomedical engineering at the University of Houston, stands in front of the AOSLO device he built. Pictured with him are his two graduate students involved in the glaucoma research using the AOSLO, Kevin Ivers, at left, and Nripun Sredar, at right. Photo credit: Thomas Campbell
A University of Houston (UH) vision scientist has received a $1.85 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate whether his techniques are more effective than others in understanding the earliest changes of glaucoma, which could lead to developing a way to earlier diagnose this potentially blinding disease.
Jason Porter, Ph.D., an assistant professor of vision science and biomedical engineering, uses a state-of-the-art instrument that takes sharper, higher-resolution images of the eye than current clinical instruments.
The adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope, or AOSLO, device Dr. Porter uses corrects for the eye’s optical imperfections and captures high-resolution movies on a cellular-level in the living eye.
Since 2009, his team has been using the AOSLO to image normal and diseased eyes, and the instrument has become a key component of their work in glaucoma, with the goal of using it to better understand retinal diseases. Read the rest of this entry ?