Measuring eye-tissue biomechanics via blink stimulation

A system for measuring eye-tissue biomechanics via blink stimulation, the system comprising:

• an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device;
• a first camera operable to provide one or more images of an eye of a patient;
• and
• a computer communicably coupled to the OCT device and the first camera, wherein the computer is operable to:
• monitor movement relative to the eye of the patient via the one or more images from the first camera;
• detect a blink of the eye of the patient responsive to the monitoring;
• responsive to the detected blink, record data resultant from a scan, by the OCT device, of at least a portion of a tissue of the eye;
• and
• measure a tissue response to the detected blink based on the recorded data from the scan.

A computer-program product comprising a non-transitory computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method comprising:

• monitoring movement relative to an eye of a patient via one or more images from a camera;
• detecting a blink of the eye of the patient responsive to the monitoring;
• responsive to the detected blink, recording data resultant from a scan, by an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device, of at least a portion of a tissue of the eye;
• and
• measuring a tissue response to the detected blink based on the recorded data from the scan.