Hand-held RetiView X09 OCT up to 40,000 A-scan／second, is cost-effective and compact, which will allow more patients to benefit from this technology through point-of-care diagnostics and tele-ophthalmology. It is a low-cost, portable and easy to use OCT system while it will be essential to facilitates widespread use at point of care settings while ensuring that it offers the necessary imaging performances needed for clinical detection of retinalpathology.

Hand-held OCT makes it easier to examine children and infants. It can be used everywhere, including in the operating theater. This makes it very easy to perform a scan, on both adults and children. Hand-held OCT can be used with lenses to acquire images of the anterior and posterior segment. Furthermore, it is a prognostic tool, which can help predict future visual acuity, as well as a tool for surgical planning.