Purpose To report a case of optic neuropathy and retinopathy from a dose of radiation traditionally thought to be safe to the visual system and discuss strategies for preventing vision loss when using radiation to treat intraocular tumors. Observations A 44-year-old woman presented with new, painless vision loss in the left eye eighteen months after receiving proton beam radiotherapy (20 Gy d...

Retinal vein occlusions (RVO) are the second commonest sight threatening vascular disorder. Despite its frequency treatments for RVO are unsatisfactory and include several that have not been tested by large, well designed, prospective, randomised controlled trials. There is also the lack of long term follow up in many of the available small uncontrolled studies, and the timings of interventions...

BACKGROUND Optic neuritis (ON) is often associated with other clinical or serological markers of connective tissue diseases (CTDs). To date, the effects of autoantibodies on ON are not clear. PURPOSE To assess the prevalence, clinical patterns, and short outcomes of autoantibodies and Sjögren's syndrome (SS) involvement in Chinese ON patients and evaluate the relationship between ON, includin...

In many cases, multivariate interpolation by smooth radial basis functions converges towards polynomial interpolants, when the basis functions are scaled to become “wide”. In particular, examples show that interpolation by scaled Gaussians seems to converge towards the de Boor/Ron “least” polynomial interpolant. The paper starts by providing sufficient criteria for the convergence of radial int...

Visual motion, such as radial optic flow, is an important cue for perceiving direction during ego-motion. Several previous studies have reported that the perceived speed of a radial optic flow is underestimated when the represented ego-motion direction between radial optic flow and non-visual (such as vestibular or/and proprioceptive) information is congruent. In the present study, we examined ...

INTRODUCTION Radiation-induced optic neuropathy (RON) is an infrequent but devastating consequence of radiation exposure to the visual pathways, usually following months to years after the treatment of paranasal or intracranial tumours. Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is one of several therapies that have been tried for this condition. The purpose of this review is to describe the clinical char...

Accurately detection of retinal landmarks, like optic disc, is an important step in the computer aided diagnosis frameworks. This paper presents an efficient method for automatic detection of the optic disc’s center and estimating its boundary. The center and initial diameter of optic disc are estimated by employing an ANN classifier. The ANN classifier employs visual features of vessels and th...

In this paper we generalize several results on uniform approximation orders with radial basis functions in (Buhmann, Dyn and Levin, 1993) and (Dyn and Ron, 1993) to L-approximation orders. These results apply, in particular, to approximants from spaces spanned by translates of radial basis functions by scattered centres. Examples to which our results apply include quasi-interpolation and least-...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review. OBJECTIVES To determine the success rate and duration of relief of repeat radiofrequency neurotomy for lumbar facet joint pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Radiofrequency neurotomy is an effective but temporary management of lumbar facet pain. When pain recurs, radiofrequency neurotomy is usually repeated, but the outcome and duration of relief for re...

PURPOSE Impending central retinal vein occlusion is associated with mild or no loss of vision; however, its progress and vision prognosis have not been clearly defined until now. Therefore, we studied the progress and prognoses in patients with impending central retinal vein occlusion. METHODS For this study, we selected ten subjects who had been diagnosed with impending central retinal vein ...