FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Widefield imaging and ultra-widefield imaging have acquired an increasingly important role in screening, diagnosing, monitoring and treating retinal diseases.
“Back in 1984, Oleg Pomerantzeff first described widefield retinal imaging with a 90° noncontact camera, and this began the successful quest for imaging the posterior pole. The Optos multimodal [ultra-widefield] device was a game changer, and ultra-widefield OCT is now essentially in every retina clinic,” Paulo E. Stanga, MD, said at the Retina World Congress.
Traditional retinal examination