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Angiography discussed at Heidelberg event

CET event looks at benefits and pitfalls of OCT hybrid angiography technology

A panel of experts have discussed the benefits and pitfalls of OCT hybrid angiography technology at Heidelberg Engineering’s 2016 masterclass CET event in Birmingham.

A consortium agreed that while OCT angiography is an exciting new technology there are challenges with image artefact and segmentation that have yet to be solved by any commercially available device.

Experts on the panel included Professor Giovanni Staurenghi from the University of Milan, and retina faculty chairman Pearse Keane. They sat alongside a representing NIHR clinician-scientist from UCL Ophthalmology faculty and Catherine Egan, consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital

Prof Staurenghi said: ‘OCT angiography is a new imaging tool and we are still in the learning curve.

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