ERG Equipment

These are contacts placed over the eye, which are connected to electrodes that measure electrical activity in the retina.

Another kind of contact used for the ERG.

These are the same eye drops a regular eye doctor uses to dilate your pupils during a regular eye exam.

This is a bottle of anesthetic eye drops which may be used during an ERG test. The ERG doesn't hurt, but it may be difficult for the child to hold still during the test. In that case, anesthesia mayb be used.

Red light is used as to not interfere with the dark adaptation necessary to conduct the test.

Flurox is another type of anesthetic eye drop solution.

This generates the flashes of light used in an ERG test.

The globe from a sideview

This is the machine that records the results of the test.

Differently colored tiles are used to produce different colors of light in order to test the eye.