A View from the Periphery

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This is the first in what may become a continuing series of pieces by Douglas Anderson. We hope you will find his observations informative; they may also occasionally be controversial, but hopefully always interesting and readable. On this first occasion we have tasked him to compare his life as an explorer with his life as the inventor of an imaging technology that by its nature discovers places that are difficult to see or in some cases have never been seen before.

 

Issue 2: Widefield Imaging and its Historic Connection

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A Conversation with Dr. Charles Schepens As many will know, Dr Schepens (Fig 1) was one of the greatest figures in ophthalmology - credited with pioneering many modern retinal surgical techniques. He was also the inventor of the binocular indirect ophthalmoscope (BIO) (Fig 2), a device that has...

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01 April 2010  

Issue 1: My Explorations

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Some might think of me as an an explorer or an innovator of new technology. While it’s true that I have a strong desire to research and understand the unknown, let me say that the titles of explorer and inventor don’t really sit with me that well. My explorations have been pretty modest and...

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31 Dezember 2009