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January 25, 2018

We presented the following presentation to Dr. Walker and out peer team, LumaSil, and received feedback on our designs. In the future, we will be splitting into two teams to work on the device housing and electronics separately. Insight Presentation

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January 19, 2018

This week our team has created a quality function deployment (QFD) for our device based on the comments we obtained from physicians and technicians t the Vanderbilt Eye Institute in December (below). The design factors that we identified as most important to our designs are the headrest, eyepiece, and device enclosure. The QFD helped inform the four…

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December 1, 2017

Note: This post was previously posted as an edit to the Updates page and was changed to a post on Dec. 2. During the past two previous weeks, our main goals were to better understand the physics and mechanics of our device and to determine and assess contraindications that may affect the efficacy of our…

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November 16, 2017

We have presented the following presentation to Dr. Walker and discussed our next steps. Device to measure visual field in glaucoma patients

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November 2, 2017

We have set up weekly meetings with our mentor from Halma. Through these meetings, we have discussed the current problems with the device, both from a patient and a provider standpoint. Our mentor has provided us with literature and documentation about the current visual field industry, as well as Halma’s device prototype. To gain a…

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November 9, 2017

We have received documents and materials related to the current prototype of Halma’s device.  In order to understand the mechanisms and principles behind a working visual field device, we have divided up the materials between our team members. Additionally, we have also received contact information of the technicians from the Vanderbilt Eye Clinic. From there,…

Posted by on November 16, 2017 in Uncategorized

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