Godara Pooja, Siebe Cory, Rha Jungtae, Michaelides Michel, Carroll Joseph
Department of Ophthalmology, The Eye Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, 925 North 87th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging. 2010 Nov-Dec;41 Suppl(Suppl):S104-8. doi: 10.3928/15428877-20101031-07.
Drusen are extracellular deposits that accumulate between the retinal pigment epithelium and Bruch's membrane. They are one of the earliest clinical manifestations of age-related macular degeneration and it is thought that they disrupt the overlying photoreceptors, leading to subsequent vision loss. The purpose of this study was to illustrate how spectral domain optical coherence tomography and adaptive optics fundus imaging can be used to quantitatively analyze the integrity of the overlying photoreceptors in a single subject with macular drusen. This imaging approach and the image analysis metrics introduced may serve as the foundation for valuable imaging-based biomarkers for detecting the earliest stages of disease, tracking progression, and monitoring treatment response.
玻璃膜疣是在视网膜色素上皮和布鲁赫膜之间积聚的细胞外沉积物。它们是年龄相关性黄斑变性最早的临床表现之一,据认为它们会破坏上方的光感受器,导致随后的视力丧失。本研究的目的是说明如何使用光谱域光学相干断层扫描和自适应光学眼底成像来定量分析一名患有黄斑玻璃膜疣的受试者上方光感受器的完整性。所介绍的这种成像方法和图像分析指标可为检测疾病最早阶段、跟踪病情进展和监测治疗反应的有价值的基于成像的生物标志物奠定基础。