Photonics West 2021: OCT makes further biomedical breakthroughs
17 Mar 2021
Michael Kaschke outlines the factors driving OCT's continued translation from bench to bedside.
So commented Michael Kaschke, former Chairman of Zeiss for a decade and as of November 2019 Chairman of the KIT Supervisory Board, when he addressed the SPIE Photonics West Digital Forum on the topic of OCT's past success and likely future applications.
"At the World Ophthalmology Congress in 2009 I was asked what technologies I believed would play a key role in the following decade," said Kaschke.
"I said that ubiquitous use of OCT was one, along with multifocal lenses, femtosecond lasers in surgery, drug treatment for glaucoma and AMD, and development of accommodating lenses. Judgment on the last one is still out, but the other four predictions all came true."