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	Queens Eye Center is located at 60-10 Main Street in Flushing. The main entrance is on the corner of Main Street and the west-bound Horace Harding expressway.
	Monica, our Office Manager, together with Registrar, Dora, will greet you in our main waiting area.
	This exam room has all of the equipment needed to perform refractions, (the testing that determines the prescription for eyeglasses). Patients who are candidates for contact lenses will also find everything that is needed here.
	Optometrist, Chang Li, evaluates a patient in the refraction exam room.
	The Pediatric Ophthalmology exam room is home to technology used in the testing and treatment of many childhood vision problems, including strabismus ('crossed eye') and amblyopia. Among the high technology tools is a portable, indirect diode laser that can be used here or transported to New York Hospital Queens. It is used in newborns for the treatment of 'retinopathy of prematurity.' Seen here is pediatric ophthalmologist, Irene Magramm, MD, examining a young, Queens Eye Center patient.
	Our ophthalmic assistant is seen at the console of the Heidelberg Retinal Tomography machine. The device is a laser scanning microscope for acquisition and analysis of three-dimensional images of the retina. It enables the quantitative assessment of the retinal topography and precise follow-up of changes. The most important clinical routine application of this is the topographic description and follow-up of the optic nerve head in glaucoma.
	Ultrasound and computer technology are critical to the modern practice of ophthalmology. Equipment like that shown here is regularly used in 'A scan' mode to measure the length of the eye in cataract patients.
	In patients with dense cataracts, light is blocked by the abnormal lens and can not be shown into the back of the eye. Doctors circumvent this problem by using a 'B scan' ultrasound study to 'see' the vitreous and retina behind the cataract.
	Luis works with us under a grant from The Friends of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus Foundation. Here he is seen looking at an HRT image just obtained from one of our glaucoma patients.
	The Heidelberg Retina Tomograph uses a diode laser with a wavelength of 670Ýnm. A three-dimensional image is acquired as 32 consecutive and equidistant optical section images, each consisting of 256Ý‰~Ý256 picture elements. Pupil dilation is not necessary.
	Dr. Sangwoo Lee, our retinal specialist, prepares to use a retinal laser.

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