Cost inhibits adoption of SS-OCT

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Cost is likely the primary reason swept-source OCT, a technology with a lot of advantages, has not been as quickly adopted as spectral domain OCT by the retinal community, Jay S. Duker, MD, told colleagues at Retina 2019.
Only two SS-OCT systems are available in 2019 in the U.S. — the Topcon Triton DRI and the Zeiss Plex Elite 9000.
Among clinical advantages of SS-OCT over SD-OCT are its higher speed (100,000 A-scans per second vs. 27,000 to 85,000 A-scans per second); less noise; no signal drop-off; (Read more...)

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