BioLight Engineering's development program is supported by the National Institutes of Health through the Small Business Innovation Research program, with the National Eye Institute as the awarding institute, in collaboration with the University of Illinois Chicago.
BioLight Engineering's development program is supported by the National Institutes of Health through the Small Business Innovation Research program, with the National Eye Institute as the awarding institute, in collaboration with the University of Illinois Chicago.
Established the feasibility of our patented trans-pars-planar illumination for ultra-widefield, non-mydriatic fundus photography of the pediatric retina, delivering illumination through the pars plana so that the full pupil is available for imaging.
Advanced the approach into working prototypes, including a dedicated handheld camera and a smartphone-based configuration, and validated ultra-widefield imaging of the retina to the ora serrata.
Supports development of clinical-grade systems, multi-center clinical evaluation with academic medical center partners, and preparation of a regulatory submission.
Project details for each award are available through the NIH RePORTER database.
This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health. The content of this website is solely the responsibility of BioLight Engineering LLC and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Peer-reviewed research from the development program and its collaborators.
Toslak D, Chau F, Erol MK, Liu C, Chan RVP, Son T, Yao X. Biomedical Optics Express 11(1), 68–76 (2020).
Ebrahimi B, et al.; Chan RVP, Yao X. Biomedical Optics Express 15(11), 6171–6182 (2024).
Ebrahimi B, Le D, Abtahi M, Dadzie AK, Rossi A, Rahimi M, Son T, Ostmo S, Campbell JP, Chan RVP, Yao X. Journal of Biomedical Optics 29(7), 076001 (2024).
Son T, Ma J, Toslak D, Rossi A, Kim H, Chan RVP, Yao X. Scientific Reports 12, 13850 (2022).
Toslak D, Son T, Erol MK, Kim H, Kim T-H, Chan RVP, Yao X. Biomedical Optics Express 11(11), 6281–6292 (2020).
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