Modernized new OCT platforms span full spectrum of multi-modality imaging for glaucoma and retinal disease
Medical technology provider Carl Zeiss Meditec announced today the introduction of anew family of ZEISS OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) products at the 2012 JointMeeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) in Chicago. The new CIRRUS OCT family is comprised of two new CIRRUS™ HD-OCT products, models 5000 and 500, and two new integrated multi-modality OCT and fundus imaging systems, the CIRRUS™ photo models 800 and 600. The new OCT platforms deliver clinical and workflow solutions that span the spectrum of care and address specific workflow and practice needs.
“The new CIRRUS family offers a choice of high-quality ZEISS OCT clinical solutions for the diagnosis and management of glaucoma and retinal disease across all levels of care, from comprehensive practices to advanced subspecialty practices,” says Dr. Ludwin Monz, President and CEO of Carl Zeiss Meditec AG. “Practitioners can now benefit from diagnostic and workflow solutions that are tailored specifically for the level of care they provide, their practice workflow and their case load volumes. The new family of OCT
products enables more practitioners to offer patients a high level of care and to tailor their investment to their workflow and practice needs.”
The CIRRUS HD-OCT 5000 has been optimized for advanced care with new FastTrac™ retinal tracking that enables the highest resolution B-Scans to be captured in identical locations from visit to visit providing accurate assessment of change in targeted pathologies. FastTrac compensates for eye motion during scanning and can be optionally turned on to assist with poor fixators to optimize patient throughput.
“With CIRRUS FastTrac, I can place a highest resolution 20x B-Scan precisely on the area I am treating at each successive visit to see the fine details of the patient’s response to treatment,“ says SriniVas Sadda MD, Director of the Medical Retina Service at Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles, California. “It’s also very helpful for removing any eye motion from the larger cube scans without disturbing my patient flow because it works so quickly. My initial experience is that FastTrac is about 30 percent faster than other tracking methods I have used.”
Additionally, to meet the needs of advanced care, the CIRRUS HD-OCT 5000 is configured with the highest resolution visualization capabilities and sophisticated applications, such as Advanced RPE Analysis to track retinal pigment epithelial integrity, and Ganglion Cell Analysis to assess glaucomatous
