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Light scattered in tissue usually ceases to be a useful source of information. But what if, instead of forcing it to travel along a single path, we allowed it to wander a little differently each time? Scientists from ICTER tested this seemingly risky idea and showed that a series of measurements that differ from one […]
What we see appears stable, even though neuronal activity is full of irregular fluctuations. A team led by Dr Mehdi Borjkhani from ICTER has shown, using a minimal model of the primary visual cortex, that two natural feedback mechanisms can constrain chaos and reduce variability in neural activity by up to 93 percent. The results […]
In the brain, what matters is not only whether a signal reaches a nerve cell, but also how long its chemical gate remains open. A team led by Dr Mehdi Borjkhani from the International Centre for Translational Eye Research (ICTER) has demonstrated in a computational model that both excessively fast and excessively slow NMDA-receptor deactivation […]
The cells that transmit visual information from the eye to the brain can die when they become overloaded with calcium. Scientists led by Dr Mehdi Borjkhani of ICTER have shown in a computational model that magnesium can curb this dangerous influx of calcium without shutting down visual signaling. However, this intervention must be carefully controlled; […]
Researchers at the International Centre for Translational Eye Research (ICTER) have developed a prototype imaging system that can simultaneously track the cornea’s mechanical response at nine locations. The technology marks an important step toward more accurate, non-contact assessment of corneal biomechanics and could improve early detection and monitoring of disorders such as keratoconus.
Modern OCT devices can look inside the eye without a scalpel – but they do not always capture everything that matters. Some critical information is simply lost, blurred by scattered photons. The STOC-T technology, developed for years by Prof. Maciej Wojtkowski and his team at ICTER, aims to resolve this problem – not through post-processing, […]
