Fluorescein angiography (FA) allows study of the circulation of the retina and choroid in normal and diseased states. Photographs of the retina are taken after intravenous injection of sodium fluorescein, an orange-red crystalline hydrocarbon with a molecular weight of 376 daltons that diffuses through most of the body fluids.
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging test. OCT uses light waves to take cross-section pictures of your retina.
With OCT, your ophthalmologist can see each of the retina’s distinctive layers. This allows your ophthalmologist to map and measure their thickness.
Your visual field is how wide of an area your eye can see when you focus on a central point. Visual field testing is one way your ophthalmologist measures how much vision you have in either eye, and how much vision loss may have occurred over time.