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Zeiss Frequency Doubling Threshold (FDT)

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Frequency Doubling Threshold (FDT) assessment of the Retinal Ganglion Nerve cells is a breakthrough in visual field testing that is efficient and fast.

The FDT is a very user-friendly automated visual field instrument.
It captures screening results in only 45 seconds and full threshold results in under 4 minutes per eye.

The FDT can detect glaucoma at an earlier stage than Standard perimetry. It is a very good test for answering the question 'is the disease present?'.

How does it do it? The FDT isolates a subset of retinal ganglion cell mechanisms in the magnocellular (M-cell) pathway. These M-cells have large diameter fibers and comprise only 3% to 5% of all retinal ganglion cells. The damage of these cells in the disease process makes FDT efficient and effective for the detection of visual field loss.

Clinically Validated:  World-class validation research with 3 years of comprehensive clinical trials. Large age-related normative database.

Rapid Testing Times:  Supra-threshold screening in only 45 seconds. Full threshold testing in under 4 minutes.

No Trial Lens Needed: Patients wear their own correction.  Automatically occludes the opposite (untested) eye. => No Ambient Light Affects so the test can be done in normal room lighting.

    
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Stimulus: Frequency Doubled sinusoidal gratings (0.25 cpd; 25 Hz).

Fixation Monitoring: Heijl-Krakau fixation monitor.

Area of Field Tested: Central 30 degrees.

Test Strategies and Patterns: Supra-threshold C-20 screening, Full threshold C-20 testing, Full threshold N-30 testing.

Analysis Software: Statistical Global Indices (MD and PSD). Probability levels and deviation plot based on age-related normative references.

Printer: High-speed, high-resolution internal thermal printer.  
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