Mr. Yaokun Zhang recieved the „Best Paper Award" (Gold) for his paper "Optical coherence tomography as a tracking device for OCT guided laser cochleostomy: algorithm and first results", at the 11th annual conference of the German Society for Computer and Robot aided Surgery (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie e. V) (CURAC2012 ), in the course of the MEDICA in Düsseldorf (15.-16.11.2012).