Jan 20 2021 Read 538 Times
Scientists at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam developing a real-time scanner that will create a full image of a moving eye without any blurring, have teamed up with photonics hub ACTPHAST 4R for help progressing their scanner concept to a demonstrator stage to acquire data faster than existing optical imaging technologies.
The lead researcher on this breakthrough development, Assistant Professor Imran Avci from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at VU Amsterdam, said: “Diagnoses of eye diseases that could lead to blindness require good quality images at an early stage. Eye abnormalities can be so very subtle in the early phase that standard OCT can miss these tiny changes. Because our eyes are constantly moving to refresh the visual input, even at a microscopic level, it makes eye imaging very difficult without having blurred images. Our scanner is different: with the data acquired fast enough, the overall goal is to have a real-time imagin