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OBJECTIVE OPERATIONS
Preparation for the patient
1 Drop mydriatic into the patient's eye to dilate his/her eye fully.
2 Prepare for intravenous injection of fluorescein.
Alignment and photography
Refer to "Alignment and photography" on page 52.
1 Carry out the intravenous injection of fluorescein and at the same time touch the timer button on
the touch display to start the timer.
2 Make sure that the alignment bright spots are changed into one spot and it is in the ( ) scale and
that the split lines are changed into one line. Then, press the .
NOTE
Before performing the intravenous injection of fluorescein, check if it is possible
to take a correct picture.
NOTE
Timer button is used to measure the elapsed time after injecting fluorescein.
Carry out the intravenous injection of fluorescein and immediately touch the
timer button. The timer counts time. The displayed characters are changed
from "START" to "STOP". To stop the timer, touch the characters "STOP".
Then, the message to recheck for the timer stop appears. Touch the [Yes] but-
ton on the message. You can also change the setting not to display the recheck
message.
NOTE
• After the timer starts to count, only for 20 seconds, the buzzer beeps every
second.
• The results of FA photography are influenced by the injection amount and time
of fluorescein, etc.
• When using the timer, the timer count is displayed on all the photographed
images.
NOTE
• In FA photography, the auto shoot function and auto small pupil function can-
not be used.
• After the timer starts to count, by pressing the photography button for a while,
the continuous photography at intervals of 1.5 seconds starts. When releas-
ing the photography button, the continuous photography stops.