Skip to content

NIH Websites Are Changing

NIH is moving the launch of its new website to the fall to ensure the best possible experience for everyone who relies on our websites for health information, research, funding opportunities, and other resources.
Get the Latest Updates and FAQs

Handheld Device Takes High-Resolution Images of Children's Retinas

Smallest, lightest handheld probe for optical coherence tomography provides insight into children's retinas
August 1, 2016
Children Devices Imaging Retina
Translational Research
Grantee

Engineers and physicians at Duke University have developed a handheld device capable of capturing images of a retina with cellular resolution. The new probe will allow researchers to gather detailed structural information about the eyes of infants and toddlers for the first time. A new paper was published online in Nature Photonics.