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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Ophthalmology Volume 2012, Article ID 806989, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/806989 Review Article Anterior Segment Tomography with the Cirrus Optical Coherence Tomography Eduardo B. Rodrigues,1, 2 Margara Johanson,1, 2 and Fernando M. Penha1, 2 1 Department of Ophthalmology, Vision Institute, UNIFESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2 Instituto de Olhos de Florianopolis, Rua Presidente Coutinho 579, Conjunto 501, 88000 Florianopolis, SC, Brazil ´ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Eduardo B. Rodrigues, rodriguesretina@ Received 11 April 2011; Accepted 11 October 2011 Academic Editor: Stefan Mennel Copyright © 2012 Eduardo B. Rodrigues et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an optical acquisition method to examine biological tissues. In recent years, OCT has become an important imaging technology used in diagnosing and following macular pathologies. Further development enabled application of optical coherence tomography in evaluation of the integrity of the nerve fiber layer, optic nerve cupping, anterior chamber angle, or corneal topography. In this manuscript we overview the use of OCT in the clinical practice to enable corneal, iris, ciliary body, and angle evaluation and diagnostics. 1. Introduction 2. Acquiring Anterior Segment Scans with the Cirrus Optical coherence tomography (OCT) sys