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Expanded COBRA Oculometrics (ECO) to Include Perimetry and Directional Assessment of Visual and Visuomotor Performance
A NASA invention available to explore as a licensing opportunity.
About this technology
Overview
Injury and disease can cause localized impairment of the retina and visual cortex. However, standard functional clinical assessment of sub-regions of the visual field and retina employ a crude spatial measure, called perimetry, that is insensitive to milder localized defects and vulnerable to eye-movement artifacts. NASA Ames Research Center’s current patented suite of COBRA oculometrics (TOP2-268) provides assessment of general retinal/visual health and performance for the entire visual field or retina, and would not detect defects limited to a small specific location on the retina or in the visual field. NASA Ames has developed a novel Expanded COBRA Oculometrics (ECO), which enhances COBRA by systematically exploring “localized” impairment of specific portions of the retina or visual field that could be the result of patchy retinal or brain degenerative disease, brain tumors, strokes, etc., and by extending the range of retina or visual field tested using a set of concentric rings divided up into octants (or quadrants).