Remote real time navigated retinal laser “tele- photocoagulation” in patients with severe non proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) can be successfully undertaken with enhanced 5G high speed wireless system.
The tele- laser intervention with 5G network, could save the rural patients from travelling a thousand miles to seek a specialist, thus, reducing carbon foot prints and opening an entirely new opportunity to improve eye care.
Retinal laser tele photocoagulation depends on multimedia data from imaging studies, which can be readily transferred through 5G networks.
The 5G telecommunication have extremely low latency, higher capacity and improve the speed of data transmission through the use of higher frequency millimetre waves compared to 4G networks. They can deliver an end to end latency of less than 5 milliseconds and over the air latency of less than 1 milliseconds, which is one tenth of 4G network latency.
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