“The IMT is a micro-sized precision telescope, about the size of a pea, that is implanted in one eye in an outpatient surgical procedure conducted under local anesthesia. The IMT provides magnification of 3.0X or 2.2X, depending on the IMT model used. A magnified image is projected over a wide field of the retina to improve the ability to recognize images that were previously either difficult or impossible to see. The IMT is implanted in one eye of patients who present with untreatable late-stage AMD (end-stage AMD). The telescope provides central vision, while the non-implanted eye provides peripheral vision.”
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Jake Linkowski, Cataract Outsourcing, 3 August 2009
