Hardware, software improvements advance OCT capabilities

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Hardware improvements that increase scanning speed with more imaging modalities and software enhancements that allow for new scanning protocols are features rounding out the OCT space in 2016, according to a speaker here. “Bottom line is that there are a lot of new things in OCT technology. We haven’t really hit the ceiling,” Jay S. Duker, MD, told colleagues at Retina 2016.

Four Speaker of the Day awardees named for Hawaiian Eye/Retina 2016

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Retina 2016 and the Administrator Program and Nurse & Allied Health Program of Hawaiian Eye kicked off Monday, joining the Comprehensive Ophthalmology Program which started Saturday. Roger F. Steinert, MD, director of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California, Irvine, was named Speaker of the Day for the Comprehensive Ophthalmology Program.