New imaging equipment is giving caregivers a deeper look inside the human eye of patients requiring advanced eye care.

Spearheaded by the Freemasons of Nova Scotia’s ‘Believing is Seeing’ fundraising campaign, the new Spectralis OCT equipment for the QEII’s Eye Care Centre is expected to have a dramatic impact on the diagnosis and care for many eye patients.

Grand Master and Most Worshipful Barry Imber of the Freemasons of Nova Scotia, called the ‘Believing is Seeing’ campaign “the largest fund raising project undertaken by the Freemasons of Nova Scotia and the Masonic Charitable Foundation in our 275 year history.  It’s gratifying to see what kind of impact this equipment can have on the over 60,000 patient visits the eye centre receives each year,” said Imber.

Spectralis OCT (pictured above) provides caregivers with unparalleled imagery of the inside of the human eye, capturing 40,000 scans per second and creating 3D, full colour imagery of the retina for detection and assessment. The total project costs for the equipment are estimated at $200,000.