{"id":304759,"date":"2024-05-16T22:14:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/imaging-fibrous-structure-abnormalities-of-the-white-of-the-eye-in-myopathic-patients\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T22:14:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:14:20","slug":"imaging-fibrous-structure-abnormalities-of-the-white-of-the-eye-in-myopathic-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/imaging-fibrous-structure-abnormalities-of-the-white-of-the-eye-in-myopathic-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaging fibrous structure abnormalities of the white of the eye in myopathic patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Japan successfully applied polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) to assess various properties of the collagen fibers that make up the sclera, the outer white of the eye. PS-OCT could determine the direction of these fibers at different layers of the sclera, enabling researchers to compare these features between eyes with different ocular pathologies. Credit: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, TMDU Eye diseases are extremely prevalent worldwide, with recent estimates suggesting that one-third of the global population suffers from some type of vision impairment. Given the high complexity <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/imaging-fibrous-structure-abnormalities-of-the-white-of-the-eye-in-myopathic-patients\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Japan successfully applied polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) to assess various properties of the collagen fibers that make up the sclera, the outer white of the eye. PS-OCT could determine the direction of these fibers at different layers of the sclera, enabling researchers to compare these features between eyes with different ocular pathologies. <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/imaging-fibrous-structure-abnormalities-of-the-white-of-the-eye-in-myopathic-patients\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}