Ophthalmic photography history

Ophthalmic photography is a specific branch of scientific and medical photography that deals exclusively with eyes and related parts.this field in photography depends of anatomy and physiology of eyes as much as technique and technology in photography.
Modern imaging of the retina began in 1886 with Jackman and Webster who produced the first human retinal photographs in vivo. Many other contributions were made over the next 50+ years until two medical students (Novotny and Davis) at Indiana University
The first study of human Fluorescein radiograms happened in the late 1950s.

Dr. Harold Novotny a senior medical student began to think about passing some kind of dye through the system to determine saturation levels. It was thought that the observation of fluorescence might make it easier to make that determination, and sodium fluorescein was one of the dyes used.

Dr Novotny with his colleague Dr Alvis began performing fluorescein studies on diabetic patients, and individuals with hypertension. For the first time their work got rejected afterThey submitted their work to the American Journal of Ophthalmology in 1960, because of similar work with cinematography published by Dr. Milton Flocks and co-workers.They presented their technique for photographing fluorescence at the Association for Research in Ophthalmology on April 23, 1960, and after that an abstarct of their work was published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology in July, 1960. In July of 1961, the first published description of the technique appeared in Circulation.

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