The retinal nerve fiber layer is the one part of the brain where nerve cells are not covered with the fat and protein sheathing called myelin, making this assessment specific for nerve damage as opposed to brain MRI changes, which reflect an array of different types of tissue processes in the brain.
The company has developed advanced software tools for predicting the optical properties of new fibres so that it can quickly identify which types of hole array out of the literally infinite range of possibilities have industrially interesting properties.