Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome (TASS)

Photographer:  Paula F. Morris, CRA, FOPS  Moran Eye Center.   Diffuse and tangentially illuminated images of corneal deposits and folks in TASS Syndrome. Images taken a using a Zeiss clinical slit-lamp biomicroscope with a Nikon D1S digital back at 24 X and 40 X.   TASS or Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome is an inflammation of the anterior segment of …

Foveal Avascular Zone

This is normal fluorescein angiogram of a human retina showing the tunic of capillaries that surround the fovea and rather nicely illustrates the Foveal Avascular Zone (FAZ) discussed in The Simple Anatomy of The Retina.  Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center.

100 Papers You Should Read: Visual Pigments of Single Goldfish Cones

  This is the fourth paper in the category, 100 Papers You Should Read (in vision science). William Rushton once said “The trouble with colour vision is the mentality of those that write on it-and of those that read.  In most aspects of physiology it is sufficient to offer a fairly plausible and adequate hypothesis; but colour …

Artisan Lens

The artisan lens is an anterior chamber lens used to treat patients with high myopia.  Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center using sclerotic scatter illumination with a Zeiss photo slitlamp and a Nikon D-1X camera.