Photos of My Eyes 

Angiograms taken February 2, 1996

The two fluorescein angiograms below show how my eyes looked through a microscope, 30 and 40 seconds after a harmless dye was injected into my arm vein. The doctor took a series of photographs starting at the moment of injection and then every few seconds so he could see different areas of the retinal veins fluorescing when strobed by a bright laser light. 

As a diagnostic tool he can then determine which areas and which vessels may be leaking blood. If the areas are well defined and not directly over the fovea (as they were in my unfortunate case) then he can later perform a procedure called laser photocoagulation to cauterize the leaking blood vessels. 

Notice the right eye (on the right) has very fine blood vessels intact near the dark spot (macula), whereas the left eye shows a large mass of scar tissue filled with dyed blood. The bright areas (right edge of the right photo and left edge of the left photo) are where the blood vessels enter the eye and is also the spot where the optic nerves feed back to the brain. The macula is off to the side of this optic nerve and is only about 6-7 millimeter in diameter. 

 

AMDLeft eye with AMD scar Normal right eyeNormal

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For you photography buffs the sites listed below contain some amazing pictures of eyes (many in full color). 

At Through Our Eyes you will find a gallery of pictures submitted by people with visual loss. It is interesting to see the world through the eyes of another person.

The Retinal Institute of Maryland has various color eye photographs. 

The Bowman Gray School of Medicine has an excellent source of ophthalmic photographs. They have a 'What is Ophthalmic Photography?' page as well as helpful patient information about angiograms. 

From the home page of the Institute of Ophthalmology of the University of Pisa, Italy ocular images of cataract, fundus oculi, eyelids, anterior segment, and tumors of the retina and choroid are available. 

Hundreds of photos can be found at the New York University MEEI. 

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