February 22nd  |  2022

HandheldOCT is going to host a free webinar on the medical background on retinal diseases by Prof. Oliver Findl.

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December 20th  |  2021

Our cooperation partners from Medical University of Vienna just got their review work on the state of the art of Miniaturizing Optical Coherence Tomography published:

→ Read full article here

October 26th  |  2021

News about Miniaturized OCT! Elisabet Rank et al. demonstrate in vivo human retinal PIC-based SS-OCT in their publication. A Mach Zehnder interferometer on a PIC was used to acquire tomograms, three dimensional data and OCTA of a healthy retina.

→ Read full article here

October 20th  |  2021

Rainer A. Leitgeb et al. from the Medical University yof Vienna just published an interesting article about the future of OCT, including the miniaturization of OCT:

→ Read full article here

October 10th  |  2021

Congratulations to Dr. Stefan Nevlacsil, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH who graduated in Medical Physics at the Medical University of Vienna!
Check out his excellent thesis titled 'Photonic integrated circuits for optical coherence tomography' → here.

August 31st  |  2021

HandheldOCT is going to host a free webinar about Optical Imaging in Medicine. Join via the link below on August 31st 2021, 09:00 CET to get insights from Michael Kempe (Carl Zeiss AG), Tilman Schmoll (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG) and Wolfgang Drexler (Medizinische Universität Wien):

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August  |  2021

Congratulations to Elisabet Rank, one of the PhD students of HandheldOCT - Miniaturized Optical Coherence Tomography, for receiving the award 'Phd student of the month'! The Postgraduate Student Representation awards excellent PhD students of the Medical University of Vienna on a monthly basis and Elisabet was elected in August 2021.

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January 11th  |  2021

HandheldOCT is going to host a free webinar on Photonic integrated circuit technology and packaging. The recorded presentation can be accessed here:

→ Watch full presentation here

January 5th  |  2021

Elisabet Rank and other cooperation partners of HandheldOCT made significant progress toward miniaturization of OCT by demonstrating the very first in-vivo human retina Tomograms using miniaturized gratings for SD-OCT in Nature Research (Publishing) Light: Science and Applications:

→ Read full article here

October 26th  |  2020

Miniaturization of OCT is progressing: Stefan Nevlacsil et al. just published their concept for a multi-channel swept source OCT configuration on a PIC - check it out in the link:

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May 15th  |  2020

Kick-off for the EU-funded project HandheldOCT: Scientists and engineers from the Medizinische Universität Wien, Tyndall National Institute, imec, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Innolume GmbH, ZEISS Group, Innolume GmbH and Nanoscribe are developing a mobile medical device for eye examination.
Based on low-cost and miniaturized integrated photonics technology, the novel handheld optical coherence tomography (OCT) device is expected to support the diagnosis and treatment monitoring of widespread eye diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.

→ Read full press release here