Happy Easter! Hopefully you were able to enjoy delicious chocolate eggs and to start the new week with a lot of power. Not every person can enjoy chocolate as patients suffering from diabetes. We show you a special case of a diabetic patient who unerwent retinal laser therapy, cataract surgery last year and still didn’t […]

>English version find below Es ist unglaublich und wunderschön zu sehen, wie OCT zum Segen der modernen Augenmedizin geworden ist. Die wirklich interessante Geschichte begann circa 2003, wo mit dem ersten kommerziell verfügbaren Time-Domain-OCT Stratus eine neue Epoche in der augenmedizinischen Diagnostik und Therapie eingeläutet wurde. Für den Patienten stand erstmals eine schonende und berührungsfreie […]

>View the program:  Program_OCT Course_Basic Swiss Eye Science Course 2014 The result of the evaluation shows to which high level the Swiss OCT-basic course has moved again in its second year. The OCT course was focused on the knowledge and skills that the modern eye doctor needs in his daily carefully work with his patients. […]

>View the program: Program_OCT Course_Basic Swiss Eye Science Course 2014 OCT (optical coherence tomography) resembles ultrasound but uses harmless laser light. Coherent light waves produce cross-sectional images of retinal tissue). In a novel, very interactive course the physical basics of OCT terms, failure modes and settings will be discussed. A second module offers hands-on exercises […]

In Keratoconus the cornea has not the structural force to keep its round shape which results in a distorted reduced vision. View the images of an advanced stage and discuss what to do best: Download file to discuss which therapy would be best in advanced Keratoconus:  Advanced Keratoconus GETOCT 10 2013

A nice gesture from Optos  to realize rapidly which more eye diseases have to be discovered. Download-> DE_Optos_Diagnostic_Atlas_A4 (PDF).

Why do you work?       -> Deutsche Version siehe unten No time for your patient, no time for a serious exam, no time for a good conversation, no quiet moment for an explanation, no time for a coffee? Why the hell then do you work? Are you already a real slave of your […]

->This video shows the latest OCT technology in full length- without a cut. This demo film is shown in “real life”, without a cut or ​​any corrections. A young gentleman was measured to test the functionality of the newly introduced Fast Tracker. In the middle of the measurement, the person moves away from the scanner, […]

Stargardt’s disease is a genetic disease of the retina. Morbus Stargardt ist eine genetische Krankheit der Netzhaut.                                                                                           ->English version below. ->View: case from GETOCT database enriched by Dr. med. Filippo Simona, Locarno, Switzerland and Dr. med. Peter Maloca, Lucerne, Switzerland. Register for more details at www.getoct.com.                   […]

In diesem kurzen Video wird gezeigt, wie eine OCT-Messung des Auges Schritt für Schritt abläuft: unkompliziert, absolut ohne Schmerzen, ohne Berührung des Auges und ohne den Patienten zu beeinträchtigen. Das ist hochmoderne Augenmedizin auf höchstem technologischen Stand. Der Film ist gedacht, um Patienten die Schritte zu zeigen und ihnen eine sorgenfreie Untersuchung zu ermöglichen. This […]