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When it comes to treating glaucoma, the goal of eye doctors is assuring their patient don’t go blind. 在治疗青光眼上，眼科医生的目标通常是确保病人不会失明。 That would seem relatively easy. Give them eye drops or refer them to surgery, which helps relieve what is known as intraocular pressure (IOP) inside the eye. But with current technology, it can often be difficult to measure this pressure because it fluctuates so much and those measurements have to be done in a doctor’s office. 这个目标看似不难，只要给他们开点眼药水或让他们去做手术就行了，手术主要是为了降低眼压。但是凭借现有技术，测量眼压是有难度的，因为眼压的波动比较大，而且测眼压的过程必须要在医生的办公室里完成。 That soon could change, thanks to a new device described in Nature Medicine. 但是借助于《自然医学》杂志描述的一种新设备，这种情况可能很快就会改变。 A team of researchers from Stanford University and Bar-Ilan University in Israel has designed an implantable sensor that can be read with a smartphone camera. This allows the patient to take readings themselves and should improve the accuracy of pressure data. 美国斯坦福大学（Stanford University）和以色列巴伊兰大学（Bar-Ilan University）的研究团队设计了一款可植入式的传感器，通过智能手机摄像头就可以获得它的读数。因此患者完全可以自行读取读数，同时它也提高了眼压数据的准确性。 | 
