On October 12-14, the Innovative Imaging for Eye Disease conference (i2Eye) gathered a hundred speakers and attendees from Europe and North America. 

Several speakers presented about multimodal retinal imaging as well as cellular and microvascular imaging using adaptive optics technology. They showed how it enables further understanding diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, and help improve clinical care.

For those who missed i2Eye 2020, the program as well as video recordings are available on this page.

 

INSERM, the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, hired Dr Kiyoko Gocho, ophthalmologist and medical researcher, as well as Dr Josselin Gautier, postdoctoral researcher. They will work on the clinical evaluation of the MERLIN device at the Quinze-Vingts National Eye Hospital.

Adaptive optics correction system has been integrated in the MERLIN device. It delivers AO-SLO images that enable to observe the retina with unprecedented level of details: the cellular level.

The following images were captured on healthy eyes. On each image, the structures observed are only a few micron in size.

• top image: individual visual cells (photoreceptor cones)
• middle image: more individual visual cells (photoreceptor cones and rods)
• bottom image: structure of blood vessels (artery in the corner, capillaries in the middle) as well as white cells (gunn dots).

 

The integration of the MERLIN device keeps on progressing, and it delivered stunning SLO images. The infrared pictures below are from a healthy eye (top) and a pathological eye (bottom).

Erasmus MC hired M. Konstantinos Ntatsis as Research Software Engineer. He will work on the MERLIN project starting January 2020.