| Vanderbilt
Ophthalmic Imaging Center |
Diabetic retinopathy screening/digital detection, pending legislation, and
information about the program at Vanderbilt. |
| Verband
der Spezialkliniken Deutschlands für Augenlaser und Refraktive Chirurgie
e.V. |
Der Verband der Spezialkliniken Deutschlands fuer Augenlaser und Refraktive
Chirurgie e.V. (VSDAR) hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, umfassend ueber die
operativen Methoden zur Korrektur der Fehlsichtigkeiten zu informieren und
aufzuklaeren. Ausserdem unterstuetzt er seine Mitglieder bei der Qualitaetssicherung
sowie der Weiterentwicklung der eingesetzten Verfahren.[German Language.
The Association of German Clinics for Eye Laser and Refractive Surgery (VSDAR)
attempts to educate and inform patients about the opportunities of operative
vision correction. Furthermore, the association supports its members in
quality assurance issues and the further development of the treatment.] |
| Vesalius
Image Archive: Eye Anatomy |
An online graphical resource including an Image Archive, a hierarchically-structured
repository of anatomical and surgical images. All of the images, illustrations,
photographs, animations, and multimedia resources are freely available for
downloading and non-commercial use. |
| Veterinary
Ophthalmology Information Centre |
(Canada) |
| V.I.
Guide: A guide to Internet resources about visual impairments, for parents
and teachers |
Topics pertaining to parenting and teaching a child with visual impairments |
| Victorian
College of Optometry, Nathan Library |
University of Melbourne. |
| Virginia
Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Dept. of Ophthalmology |
General information, departmental information, activities, case reports |
| Virtual
Hospital: Ophthalmology |
The University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook, Chapter 19: Ophthalmology.
From the |
| Virtual
Hospital. |
|
| Vision
2020 |
The Right to Sight, a worldwide concerted effort designed to eliminate avoidable
blindness by the year 2020. |
| Vision
and Art |
The Use of Visual Information in Art . |
| Vision
and Modeling Group |
Vision and Modeling Group of the MIT Media Laboratory studies problems in
computer vision and scene modeling. Image compression, perception of human
action. |
| Vision
Council of America / Better Vision Institute |
|
| Vision
of Children |
One of the organization's goals is to disseminate information about the
detection, incidence, and treatment of diseases or conditions that either
severely impair vision or cause total blindness in children. The site addresses
ocular albinism and other hereditary diseases affecting the eye. |
| Vision
Problems in the U.S. |
A Report from Research to Prevent Blindness about Prevalence of adult vision
impairment and age-related eye disease in America. Requires Adobe Acrobat
Reader. |
| Vision
Research: A National Plan |
,
1999-2003. The National Eye Institute is pleased to announce the publication
of Vision Research--A National Plan:1999-2003, the sixth plan in the series
that dates back to the publication of the first plan, Vision Research Program
Planning in 1975. The file is very large and may take some time in downloading. |
| Vision
Research Coordinating Center |
The Vision Research Coordinating Center, part of the Department of Ophthalmology
and Visual Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis,
Missouri coordinates a number of smaller vision research efforts, the VRCC
also manages data collection and analysis for two large-scale multi-center
clinical trials sponsored by the national Eye Institute. |
| Vision
Science History |
Important Dates in Vision Science. |
| Vision
Science Reference Database |
A current literature database service provided by the University of Waterloo
Centre for Contact Lens Research ("CCLR") and sponsored by Bausch &
Lomb. CCLR dedicates staff independently to collect and post information
and abstracts from the most current articles on subjects in ophthalmology
and optometry from professional journals, including major publications not
normally covered by other databases, such as Contact Lens & Anterior
Eye, the CLAO Journal, Contact Lens Spectrum, Optician, Review of Ophthalmology,
and others. You must register to use but it is a free service to eye care
professionals, educational institutions and vision science researchers. |
| The
Vision Simulator |
This tool allows patients, caregivers, and physicians the opportunity to
experience what it might be like to suffer from various eye diseases and
conditions, including glaucoma, macular degeneration, and retinopathy. |
| Vision-Therapy.com |
The purpose of the site is to promote public awareness about vision therapy
and to provide an online resource for professionals working in the specialty.
Includes Links to Vision Therapy sites. |
| Vision
Works, Inc. |
This site highlights the possible role of complementary care in the treatment
of over 20 eye diseases including macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts,
dry eyes and diabetic retinopathy. |
| Visionary:
A Dictionary of terminology in vision research |
Written and maintained by Lars Liden, Dept of Cognitive and Neural Systems,
Boston University. A browsable online dictionary of over 350 terms related
to human and animal vision, from Amblyopia to Zollner Illusion, and including
"biological and machine vision, visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience
and other related fields." Entries offer brief descriptions with occasional
graphics and hot-linked cross references to related terms. There are also
appendices of specialized terms, including one on the Cortical Areas, which
maps each definition to its location on an outline of a Rhesus monkey brain. |
| Visionet |
The Visionet database contains bibliographic citations of journal articles,
books and slides located in the Southern College of Optometry (SCO) Library.
Subject areas covered include vision science, contact lenses, eye disease,
optometry and ophthalmology. The files were begun in 1976 and are current,
with weekly updates. No abstracts or full text articles are available online,
but most may be ordered from the SCO Library. Book and slide records are
for information only, and cannot be provided by the SCO Library. You must
have an ID and Password to use the system, registration is available online. |
| Visual
Impairment Data |
Data from the World Health Organization. |
| Vitreous
Society Online |
Vitreous Society Online Journal, News, Annual Meeting Information and more. |
| Voice
Recognition |
Information available from 21st Century Eloquence. A commercial site but
has a large amount of voice recognition news, faqs, forums, industry trends,
demonstrations as well as product information. |
| VRS-online:
Vitreoretinal Symposium Marburg - Frankfurt |
The VitreoRetinal Symposia (VRS) are a series of annual meetings featuring
vitrectomy wetlabs and prominent international speakers who discuss the
opportunities and limitations of selected vitreoretinal diagnostic and therapeutic
approaches. Several sessions are dedicated to cover the latest improvements
an developments of drugs, instruments, and methods used. Panel discussions
for each session encourage information exchange.The VRS, first performed
in 1998, is alternatively hosted in Marburg and Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
|
| Visudyne |
available from Novartis. |
| Wake
Forest University Eye Center |
Department of Ophthalmology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest
University Eye Center. General Information about WFU Eye Center, the Residency
Program, List of clinical conferences and general public seminars. A link
to the North Carolina Lions Clinical Research site. |
| Washington
Academy of Eye Physicians & Surgeons, The |
Contains a large collection of articles for the general public on eye disease
with photos This state organization represents 294 ophthalmologist members. |
| Washington
University, Department of Ophthalmology |
Washington University, St. Louis, Department of Ophthalmology. |
| Web
de José Pinós, El- Oftalmologia |
This Spanish web site is created by Dr. José Pinós, an Associate Professor
of Ophthalmology at the Hospital General Universitario de Valencia (Spain)
and is dedicated to digital fluorescein angiography.Esta es la página Web
del Dr. José Pinós. En ella se pretenden mostrar imagenes de angiografías
fluoresceínicas digitales de ojos normales y con diversos tipos de patologías. |
| l'Orthoptique
en France |
Le site non officiel de l'Orthoptique en France. La liste de diffusion pour
Orthoptistes francophones.inscription auprès de Jean-Marc Desvals |
| jmd@2yeux.com |
The
nonofficial site of Orthoptists in France. |
| Webvision |
The Organization of the Vertebrate Retina |
| WHO
Prevention of Blindness |
About the PBL project, Data on visual impairments, publications. |
| The
Whole Brain Atlas |
MRI image database of the brain. |
| Wills
Eye Hospital |
Patient and Professional Information, Case reports (Chiefs Rounds) and CME. |
| Wills
Eye Hospital Glaucoma Service and Foundation |
The site hosts a Chat Support Group weekly with specialists from Wills present
to answer questions from glaucoma patients and family members. |
| Wilmer
Eye Institute |
Wilmer Eye Institute, the Department of Ophthalmology of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. |
