Advanced Diagnostic Equipment

Our clinic is a referral center for other eye doctors as we are equipped with advance testing tools to aid in the timely diagnosis and management of advanced eye disease. 

• Retinal Photography:  We have an advanced digital camera designed to photograph the inside or your eyes for exact documentation of your internal ocular health.  Retinal photography is painless and uses ordinary light.  Computer software assists your eye doctor to detect the early stages of internal eye disease. This procedure is recommended for all patients but especially those with:

• Diabetes
• HIV – AIDS
• High blood pressure
• A history of Cancer
• A history of Retinal Detachment
• Glaucoma or a risk of Glaucoma
• Macular Degeneration or a risk of AMD
• Any other recommendation by your doctor

• Corneal Topography: a mapping device which documents 25, 000 points of digital data and mathematically analyzes the hills and valleys on the surface of your eye.  This tool is essential for all laser eye surgery patients and is used in advanced contact lens fittings and for the detection of corneal diseases such as keratoconus. Our clinic was the first optometry clinic in BC to have this technology.

• Visual Field Analyzer: This state of the art diagnostic tool is the gold standard in the diagnosis of Glaucoma.  By testing your central and peripheral field of vision with spots of light with different sizes and intensity we can assess how much light is taken from your eye to your brain through your optic nerve and along the visual pathway.  This tool helps to identify brain tumors, stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, cancer, brain injuries and the toxic side effects of strong medications like Tamoxophen (a cancer drug).

• Ocular Coherence Tomography is like an ultrasound but with light.   OCT will see each of the 10 sub-layers of the retina and detail this structure in 10 micron sections.  OCT is the only way to see the macula in all of its detail and detect microscopic fluid accumulation or separation of layers at the macula before sight is lost.  The OCT will also measure the diameter, depth and volume of the optic nerve where it joins the eye.  This measurement is necessary to assess the progression of glaucoma.  The OCT test is painless and takes about 5 minutes.  Our clinic was the first optometry clinic in Vancouver to have this technology.

• GDx VCC – will measure the thickness of the 1.5 million retinal never fibers as they enter the optic nerve.  The GDx VCC will detect glaucoma damage six years before you start to lose you visual field.  The test is painless and takes 0.8 seconds.  Our clinic was the first optometry clinic in BC to have this technology.

• Pachymetry – is an ultrasound device used to measure the thickness of the front surface of an eye (the cornea).  It has only been since 2002 that eye pressure was found to be related to corneal thickness.  Anyone at risk for glaucoma and anyone with a history of laser eye surgery (PRK or LASIK) should have this test to help determine the true pressure of their eye