The future of the investigation and treatment of retinal disorders is already here at the MedUni Vienna: in the new Christian Doppler "OPTIMA" (Ophthalmic Image Analysis) laboratory headed by Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, Director of the University Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, new technologies in optical coherence tomography (OCT) and computer programmes are being developed, which should help to produce the optimal diagnosis and thus, for the first time, completely individual treatment plans.