As part of the 70th HansePhotonik Forum, Fabian Henk was able to present his work on “Construction and characterization of a catadioptric multispectral fundus camera” to a specialist audience and subsequently received the HansePhotonik sponsorship prize of 1,000 euros. Every year, the “HansePhotonik Competence Network Optical Technologies” honors outstanding student work, cooperation and network projects and innovative solutions in industrial applications. Requirements that apply exactly to Fabian Henk and his working environment.
From theory to practice
Fabian Henk was already able to gain experience in medical optics during his bachelor’s degree. In the laboratory for medical optics at the TH Lübeck he laid the foundation for his later master’s thesis, in which he completed an internship on the topic “Development of optics for multispectral segmentation of the retina on a single camera chip”. During this internship, the 25-year-old did the theoretical preparatory work for his master’s thesis, which he did at the TH Lübeck under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mathias Beyerlein and the University of Lübeck with the support of Prof. Dr. Maik Rahles wrote.
Novel imaging method tested
Fabian Henk tested a new type of imaging method that, with the help of special camera technology and filter principles, enables images of the human retina with a higher information content. The multispectral imaging used here records the retinal image not only with the three basic colors of human perception, but also in several spectral color ranges. “Another special feature is that the recording takes place in one image instead of sampling it in several steps. This is particularly important for moving objects such as the eye,” says Fabian Henk. The advantage: “We can use it to display certain structures in the eye in a more differentiated manner and in the future to quickly identify and track diseases such as age-related macular degeneration – a chronic eye disease,” explains Henk.
“I am very happy that my work is getting so much encouragement,” says Fabian Henk enthusiastically. The prospective doctoral student initially puts the prize money aside in order to spend it later during a research stay abroad as part of his doctoral thesis.
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Further information
The lab for Medical optics