Low Vision Research at the Schepens Eye Research Institute
Abstract
The purpose of the grant is to prevent low vision that can occur on the battlefield in two contexts. The first area is inattentional blindness that can occur when using complex visual displays on military equipment, especially head mounted displays. The second use the collateral damage that can occur in the retina after laser burns. The scope of the work is 1. To determine the optimal angumented vision system by understanding the ability of an individual to access supplemental visual information presented by vision multiplexing and 2. To develop novel treatments that control the inflammatory response and repair neuroretinal damage induced by retinal laser burns. Our major findings are 1. Applying cartoon-like edge filtering did not overcome inattentional blindness; 2. Later the retina and retinal pigmented epithelium, but not from vitreous, that suppress the inflammatory activity of actived macrophages; induced neuronal cell apoptosis that could potentially be repaired by biodegradable polymer/progenitor cell composites.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA469483
Entities
People
- Andrew J. Taylor
- Bruce Ksander
- Darlene A. Dartt
- Dong F. Chen
- Joan Stein-streilein
- Michael Young
- Russell Woods
Organizations
- Schepens Eye Research Institute