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.
‘We have shown that it is important to exercise caution when using new technology that we do not necessarily fully understand yet. We know that using multimodal imaging provides a better diagnosis than using single imaging modes alone and it seems OCT angiography will play an important role in multimodal imaging in the future.’
A webinar of the forum, which was held in May, will be made available online later this year.