Month: April 2016

Research Update: Vision Eye Institute is part of an International Study On Dry Macular Degeneration Following a visit to Los Angeles last year, I am pleased to announce that Vision Retinal Institute Eastern (Box Hill), along with the Centre for… Continue Reading

Nanosecond laser technology features a speckled beam profile which exclusively targets selected, individual cells within the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). The application of nanosecond laser to the RPE results in the formation of microbubbles around the melonasomes. These microbubbles expand and then… Continue Reading

20 years ago, I was researching the world’s first commercially available OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) scanner for my MD thesis in London. The pictures were grainy, indistinct, difficult to interpret and took a few seconds to take. At that time… Continue Reading

It’s now nearly 10 years since we started injecting people for ‘wet’ age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and it’s very encouraging that we’re getting better outcomes due to better imaging technology, vastly improved clinical skills of eye professionals and greater awareness of… Continue Reading