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Retinal Vascular Reactivity as Assessed by Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography
Published on: March 26, 2020
Plexus-Specific Detection of Retinal Vascular Pathologic Conditions with Projection-Resolved OCT Angiography
Rachel C Patel1,2, Jie Wang1, Thomas S Hwang1
1Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, 3375 SW Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, OR 97239.
Objective:
To evaluate the projection-resolved (PR) optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) algorithm in detecting plexus-specific vascular abnormalities in retinal pathologies.
Design:
Cross-sectional observational clinical study.
Participants:
Patients diagnosed with retinal vascular diseases and healthy volunteers.
Methods:
Eyes were imaged using an OCT system operating at 840 nm and employing the split-spectrum amplitude decorrelation algorithm. A novel algorithm suppressed projection artifacts inherent to OCTA. The volumetric scans were segmented and visualized on different plexuses.
Main Outcome Measures:
Qualitative observation of vascular abnormalities on both cross-sectional and en face PR-OCTA images.
Results:
Eight illustrative cases are reported. In cases of diabetic retinopathy, retinal vessel occlusion, and retinitis pigmentosa, PR-OCTA detected retinal nonperfusion regions within deeper retinal plexuses not visualized by conventional OCTA. In age-related macular degeneration, cross-sectional PR-OCTA permitted the classification of choroidal neovascularization, and, in a case of retinal angiomatous proliferation, identified a vertical vessel contiguous with the deep capillary plexus. In macular telangiectasia, PR-OCTA detected a diving perifoveal vein and delineated subretinal neovascularization.
Conclusions:
Application of PR-OCTA promises to improve sensitive, accurate evaluation of individual vascular plexuses in multiple retinal diseases.
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