With the powerful imaging technology of in-vivo corneal confocal microscopy, researchers and doctors may now view the microstructures at the ocular surfaces in great detail.
The cornea, a transparent dome-shaped tissue that makes up the front of the eye, is particularly densely innervated with sensory nerves. A method that can image corneal microstructures at various tissue depths is in-vivo corneal confocal microscopy. It has shed light on the biological processes of various cornea neuronal and immunological components in conjunction with immunohistochemistry methods. The sub-basal nerve plexus, located between the basal epithelial layer and Bowman’s layer and the densest and most homogeneous of the many neural plexi in the cornea, has drawn much attention. With corneal confocal microscopy, it is now possible to non-invasively photograph corneal microstructures and track how they alter over time in response to diverse stimuli.
Over the past several decades, ocular imaging techniques have grown and improved, with in-vivo confocal microscopy emerging as a possible diagnostic method for ocular surface illnesses because of its capacity to quickly and non-invasively study ocular surface microstructures. The foundation of this imaging method is the 1955 confocal microscopy idea. Confocal microscopy creates pictures with higher resolution and better out-of-focus information rejection than traditional light microscopy. It is suitable for studying intact tissue in living creatures because it has the optical sectioning capacity to take pictures of cellular layers at different depths inside a dense tissue specimen.
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