The book will start with a chapter describing the fundamentals of OCT, how it works, and specifically how it measures the structures that are important for the diagnosis and follow-up of glaucoma patients. It will then have 4 chapters on the specific parameters that OCT measures that are helpful in glaucoma diagnosis and follow-up (RNFL, optic disc, macular parameters, and anterior segment OCT) for the diagnosis and characterization of glaucoma. The next chapter will be devoted to the diagnosis of progression. The goal is to have examples from all 5 companies’ instruments although it is unlikely that an individual author will have access to printouts from all 5. There will then be two authors for each chapter who will be able to contribute cases from multiple instruments. This is a challenge because most practitioners only use one OCT platform clinically. Two further chapters will describe cases that represent false positives and false negatives and also challenging cases. This is extremely important since most of the peer-reviewed literature has studies of where OCT correctly identifies patients with glaucomas vs. normal but there are many false positive and false negative examples and these fall into certain categories that can be illustrated. weiterlesen