Application of Mobile Phones in Ophthalmology

Ophthalmic calculator apps include age-to-bifocal add, amplitude of accommodation, cross cylinder calculator, diopter to radius conversion, glaucoma risk calculator, intraocular lens (IOL) calculator, intraocular pressure (IOP)-central corneal thickness (CCT) calculator, transposition calculator, vertex conversion, and visual acuity (VA)calculator[8] [Figure 4]. {Figure 4} Photographic and Image Processing Tools Most recent generation mobile phones are equipped with a high quality camera that can be used to take fundus photographs through a slit lamp or record videos from an operating microscope and display images from optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems and other high-tech devices.