What is visual field?
Visual field is a test
to diagnosing the glaucoma. It’s help not only doctors but patients to find
which type of glaucoma and what is the situation of Glaucoma patients have. It
is very necessary in the treatment of glaucoma.
Types of visual field test
There are two of visual
field test the one is called the Traditional Visual field test and the other
one is called Virtual Visual Field.
Traditional Field Test
Traditional field is
done with fully manual equipment and it take long time. In this test, it
requires a Trained technician, a dark room, Heavy bulky machines to diagnose
the glaucoma. It is also very expensive way to diagnose the glaucoma.
Virtual Visual Field test on the other hand is new one. It does not required that much cost, does
not required a highly profession person to handle the machine, not bulky in
size, easy to use and does not required the dark room. It’s the easier way to
diagnose the glaucoma state of a patient. It also helps the doctor to diagnose
glaucoma and apply their treatment of glaucoma at patients.
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