OCT anterior imaging at the SCLOSS conference

Most modern OCTs found in eye care practice use incident infra-red light of a wavelength long enough to penetrate adequately into the eye and provide, exploiting the superfast Fourian analysis of differences in the interference patterns of reflected light from various surfaces, high-resolution images of ocular tissue sections. Individual units primarily aimed at anterior tissues have been developed using a slightly shorter wavelength incident beam, but these are unsuitable for retinal work. On the other hand, most of the OCT units in use today, not only give excellent retinal level resolution, but are still able to give perfectly clear and useful images of anterior structures.