Cynthia A. Toth, MD, is a Professor of Ophthalmology Vitreoretinal Diseases and Surgery and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke. Clinical Interests: Medical and surgical diseases of the retina and vitreous, especially macular diseases, surgical treatments for macular degeneration, retinopathy of prematurity, proliferative vitroeoretinal disorders, retinal detachment and laser eye injury, choroidal neovascular membranes and subretinal hemorrhage, macular translocation surgery. Research Interests: Dr. Toth specializes in the evaluation and surgical treatment of vitreoretinal diseases in adults and children. She has pioneered the development of macular translocation surgery for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Her particular clinical interests and skills also include the surgical treatment of macular diseases, retinal detachment, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Dr. Toth’s primary research interests include improving diagnostic methods and therapy for macular degeneration and the development and application of optical coherence tomography for macular diseases. She has been repeatedly honored among the Best Doctors in America.
Now, for the first time, we can take the SD OCT system into the neonatal intensive care unit and hold it over the infant's eye without touching the eye and image the retina while the infant is lying in the bed.In Mapping a baby’s retina for signs of blindness
SD OCT reveals the retina in greater detail than was ever before realized, allowing us to observe disease at almost the cellular levelIn New device finds early signs of eye disease in preemies
We can see just amazing things in these young children's eyes that we never suspected.In Testing tool to better detect premature baby eye disease
One benefit of SD-OCT is the creation of the summed voxel projection [SVP], which is helpful for orientation of individual OCT scans. One can collapse three-dimensional OCT volumes along the depth axis to form a two-dimensional plane, summing pixels to calculate one representative pixel intensity alone each line in the projection.In Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography an improvement over previous optical coherence tomography systems