Thema: 
Fundus imaging, a basic technique in ophthalmologic diagnostics, was revolutionized by groundbreaking advances in the last years: High-resolution OCT gives unprecedented images of the retinal morphology and allows to observe very early pathologic alterations. Adaptive optics fundus imaging and OCT provides a resolution on cellular level. Complementing fundus autofluorescence imaging with spectral and fluorescence lifetime resolution allows for a molecular imaging, revealing pathologic changes fluorophores and/or their composition in diseases such as AMD, retinitis pigmentosa, macular telangiectasia, choroideremia, and Stargardt’s disease. Two-photon imaging will enable the excitation of further fluorophores characterizing the retinal metabolism.
While some of those new imaging techniques showed fascinating things in the lab such as the movement of single blood cells and microglia, the dynamics of photoreceptors in the vision process or the kinetics of photopigment bleaching and regeneration, others are already on their way to the clinics with a huge diagnostic potential. This will greatly enhance our understanding of retinal pathology, will improve diagnostics and therapy monitoring, and may provide new end points for clinical studies.

• Organisation / Vorsitz / Chair: Thomas Ach (Bonn)
• Vorsitz / Chair: Martin Hammer (Jena)

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