Manchester hospital offers ultra-wide field OCT

Manchester Royal Eye Hospital was the first in the UK to use Canon’s ultra-wide field Xephilio OCT-S1 angiography machine in a patient-facing setting.

The Widefield OCT A machine from Canon was purchased through charitable funds provided the by Manchester Foundation Trust Charity, which supports the trust’s ten hospitals.

Professor of Ophthalmology and Consultant Ophthalmologist, Tariq Aslam said: ‘With this new equipment we can improve patient care by offering immediate scans as simple as taking a picture to look for potentially blinding disease.  

‘This technology will help our clinicians to make rapid diagnoses of many conditions and prevent and treat the most common forms of sight loss.’