Measuring biomechanical and birefringent properties of eye tissue

Abstract

In certain embodiments, an ophthalmic diagnostics system includes a polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) device. The system also includes a memory having executable instructions. The system also includes a processor in communication with the memory and configured to execute the instructions to cause the PS-OCT device to emit polarized light to a measurement location on eye tissue of a patient and generate PS-OCT data based on the polarized light. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions to determine birefringent information for the measurement location based on the PS-OCT data and to determine biomechanics information for the measurement location based on the PS-OCT data. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions to determine a correlation between at least a portion of the biomechanics information and at least a portion of the birefringent information.

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