Posted on 12/7/2020
Eye scanning techniques currently only undertaken by highly trained medical staff within clinical settings may soon be carried out in much more accessible locations using robotics. Team RAOCT from Duke University (USA), finalists for KUKA’s Innovation Award 2020: Medical Robotics Challenge, presented their pioneering solution at virtual.MEDICA + virtual.COMPAMED.
Mark Draelos, MD, PhD, led the team in demonstrating how optical coherence tomography (OCT), a non-invasive imaging test using light waves to take cross-section pictures of the retina, could be carried out by a robotic arm. He explained:
“OCT has revolutionized ophthalmic imaging—it is able to obtain 3D images of the eye which are able to reveal key details of interes...