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How do you measure eye fatigue in radiology?
Last year, our VP of Technology and Innovation Tom Kimpe and his team conducted a research experiment in collaboration with the radiology department at AZ Groeninge hospital in Kortrijk. They are looking for objective ways to measure eye fatigue.
Radiologists daily spend hours in darkened rooms, in front of a screen. They analyze and interpret images that are sometimes highly complex, and that require focus for longer periods of time. This can lead to tiredness, especially in the eyes. Although there is a lot of scientific literature about this, it’s a challenge to find user-friendly objective ways to measure fatigue.
“Many ways of measuring eye fatigue are intrusive, disturbing radiologists in their work. That makes them less reliable,” explains Tom Kimpe.
