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Vienola KV, Holmes JA, Glasso Z, Rossi EA. Head stabilization apparatus for high-resolution ophthalmic imaging. Appl Opt 2024; 63:940-944. [PMID: 38437390 DOI: 10.1364/ao.513801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2024]
Abstract
Head movement must be stabilized to enable high-quality data collection from optical instrumentation such as eye trackers and ophthalmic imaging devices. Though critically important for imaging, head stabilization is often an afterthought in the design of advanced ophthalmic imaging systems, and experimental devices often adapt used and/or discarded equipment from clinical devices for this purpose. Alternatively, those seeking the most stable solution possible, including many users of adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy systems, utilize bite bars. Bite bars can provide excellent stability but are time consuming to fabricate, decreasing imaging efficiency, and uncomfortable for many patients, especially the elderly and/or those with prosthodontics such as dentures who may refuse participation in a study that requires one. No commercial vendors specifically offer head mount solutions for experimental ophthalmic imaging devices, resulting in nearly every custom device having a different solution for this commonly encountered problem. Parallelizing the head stabilization apparatus across different custom devices may improve standardization of experimental imaging systems for clinical trials and other multicenter investigations. Here we introduce a head mount design for ophthalmic imaging that is modular, adjustable, and customizable to the constraints of different experimental imaging configurations. The three points of head contact in our solution provide excellent stabilization across a range of head sizes and shapes from small children to adults, and the ease of adjustment afforded by our design minimizes the time to get participants stabilized and comfortable.
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Pijewska E, Valente D, Vienola KV, Meleppat R, Zawadzki RJ, Jonnal RS. Contributed Session I: Human cone response models for optoretinography with FF-SS-OCT and adaptive optics. J Vis 2023; 23:68. [PMID: 38109580 DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.15.68] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2023] Open
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Recent work has shown that human rod and cone outer segments (ROS and COS, respectively) deform in response to visual stimuli. In phase-based optoretinography (ORG) the phases of backscattered light from the inner/outer segment junction (IS/OS) and the COS/ROS tips (COST/ROST), is measured, which allows observation of stimulus-evoked, nanometer-scale changes in the OS length. In this work, we used a full-field swept-source OCT with AO that allowed up to kHz volume rates. ORG responses were recorded in two healthy volunteers, with photopigment bleaching levels in the range of 1-60 %, and modeled using an exponential sum. The proposed harmonic oscillator-based response model allowed us to describe the shape of the cone's ORG responses by amplitudes of deflection and relaxation times. Our preliminary results show that responses to complex stimuli were consistent with photopigment availability, which in the context of the consensus theory that adaptation in cones is mediated by photopigment suggests that the ORG may be a useful way to probe light adaptation in cones. The development of simple quantitative parameters describing the ORG response should benefit future clinical applications and help to track the progress of blinding diseases.
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- Ewelina Pijewska
- Center for Human Ophthalmic Imaging Research (CHOIR), UC Davis Eye Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
- EyePOD Imaging Lab, Dept. of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Dept. of Physics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE 50740-540, Brazil
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
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- Center for Human Ophthalmic Imaging Research (CHOIR), UC Davis Eye Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Center for Human Ophthalmic Imaging Research (CHOIR), UC Davis Eye Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Center for Human Ophthalmic Imaging Research (CHOIR), UC Davis Eye Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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Vienola KV, Lejoyeux R, Gofas-Salas E, Snyder VC, Zhang M, Dansingani KK, Sahel JA, Chhablani J, Rossi EA. Autofluorescent hyperreflective foci on infrared autofluorescence adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy in central serous chorioretinopathy. Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep 2022; 28:101741. [PMID: 36345414 PMCID: PMC9636439 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajoc.2022.101741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2022] [Revised: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 10/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Purpose To test the hypothesis that hyperreflective foci in central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) are autofluorescent and may represent macrophages that have engulfed outer retinal fluorophores from the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors. Methods Enrolled subjects underwent spectral domain and swept-source optical coherence tomography, adaptive optics flood-illumination, and adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO), including near-infrared autofluorescence (AO-IRAF). For the AO-IRAF imaging, retinal fluorophores were excited using 795 nm light and collected in an emission band from 814 to 850 nm. Results In 2 of 3 eyes, a hyperautofluorescent signal was detected with an elliptical shape and punctate, granular aspects surrounded by a hypoautofluorescent halo. The size of these structures in the active case was measured to be 17 ± 4 μm in diameter, with at least 45 individual hyperautofluorescent foci identified from the AO-IRAF montage in the active stage of patient 2. In the asymptomatic case there were fewer structures visible (∼10) and their size was smaller (11 ± 4 μm). These hyper-AF foci were colocalized with hyperreflective foci on OCT and visible in simultaneously acquired confocal AOSLO images in active stage. The hyperautofluorescent foci in the patient with active CSCR disappeared coincident with clinical resolution. Conclusion and importance We show here the first AO-IRAF images from patients with CSCR, demonstrating hyper-autofluorescent punctate foci, colocalized with hyper-reflective foci on confocal AOSLO images and in OCT. The autofluorescence of these foci may be driven by the accumulation of photoreceptor and RPE fluorophores within macrophages during the active stage of the disease.
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- Kari V. Vienola
- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Corresponding author. Laboratory of Biophysics, Institute of Biomedicine University of Turku Tykistönkatu 6A, Turku, Finland.
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- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Rothschild Foundation Hospital, 29 rue Manin, Paris, France
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- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, 4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Vienola KV, Zhang M, Snyder VC, Dansingani KK, Sahel JA, Rossi EA. Near infrared autofluorescence imaging of retinal pigmented epithelial cells using 663 nm excitation. Eye (Lond) 2022; 36:1878-1883. [PMID: 34462582 PMCID: PMC9499940 DOI: 10.1038/s41433-021-01754-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Revised: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Fundus autofluorescence (AF) using adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) enables morphometric analysis of individual retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) cells. However, only a few excitation wavelengths in the visible and near-infrared have been evaluated. Visible light excitation (<600 nm) presents additional safety hazards and is uncomfortable for patients. Near-infrared excitation (>700 nm) overcomes those problems but introduces others, including decreased AF signal and cone signatures that obscure RPE structure. Here we investigated the use of an intermediate wavelength, 663 nm, for excitation and compared it to 795 nm. METHODS Subjects were imaged using AOSLO equipped with a detection channel to collect AF emission between 814 and 850 nm. Two light sources (663 and 795 nm) were used to excite the retinal fluorophores. We recorded 90 s videos and registered them with custom software to integrate AF images for analysis. RESULTS We imaged healthy eyes and an eye with pattern dystrophy. Similar AF microstructures were detected with each excitation source, despite ~4 times lower excitation power with 663 nm. The signal-to-noise values showed no meaningful difference between 663 nm and 795 nm excitation and a similar trend was observed for image contrast between the two excitation wavelengths. CONCLUSIONS Lower light levels can be used with shorter wavelength excitation to achieve comparable images of the microstructure of the RPE as have been obtained using higher light levels at longer wavelengths. Further experiments are needed to fully characterize AF across spectrum and determine the optimal excitation and emission bandwidths that balance efficiency, patient comfort, and efficacy.
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- Kari V Vienola
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Vienola KV, Zawadzki RJ, Jonnal RS. Towards clinically friendly optoretinography (ORG) using 100 kHz swept-source OCT without adaptive optics (AO). J Vis 2022. [PMID: 35120256 DOI: 10.1167/jov.22.3.4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Optoretinography measures the stimulus-evoked response of the photoreceptors using light. Current systems use adaptive optics (AO) to obtain cellular-level resolution and fast volume acquisitions, to be able to monitor a single cone's response with sufficient sampling over time. The systems are complex to operate and therefore are not ideal in the clinical setting, where ease-of-use and high throughput are desirable. Here, we set out to explore if a less complex research-grade imaging system without AO could detect light-evoked changes in the retina when stimulus is applied. The imaging system uses 100 kHz swept source for OCT and tracking laser scanning ophthalmoscope is coupled into the sample arm for active eye-tracking. This provides a correction signal for the OCT to minimize spurious phase noise from eye motion. The stimulus is done with 555 nm LED (single flash and 10 Hz flicker) during OCT imaging. Obviously, the resolution is not the same without AO and signals are a collective response from tens of photoreceptors resulting in measurements of phase shift between scattering speckle fields rather than well-defined single reflections from within a photoreceptor. Improper eye tracking can also negatively affect phase-sensitive imaging needed to observe ORG signals. The ability to observe any stimulus-evoked responses using standard OCT would make optoretinography more accessible to study human vision as well as novel functional biomarkers of retinal diseases.
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- Kari V Vienola
- Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, USA.,EyePod Small Animal Ocular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California Davis, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, USA
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Gofas-Salas E, Rui Y, Mecê P, Zhang M, Snyder VC, Vienola KV, Lee DMW, Sahel JA, Grieve K, Rossi EA. Design of a radial multi-offset detection pattern for in vivo phase contrast imaging of the inner retina in humans. Biomed Opt Express 2022; 13:117-132. [PMID: 35154858 PMCID: PMC8803027 DOI: 10.1364/boe.441808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Revised: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/21/2021] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
Abstract
Previous work has shown that multi-offset detection in adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) can be used to image transparent cells such as retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in monkeys and humans. Though imaging in anesthetized monkeys with high light levels produced high contrast images of RGCs, images from humans failed to reach the same contrast due to several drawbacks in the previous dual-wavelength multi-offset approach. Our aim here was to design and build a multi-offset detection pattern for humans at safe light levels that could reveal transparent cells in the retinal ganglion cell layer with a contrast and acquisition time approaching results only previously obtained in monkeys. Here, we present a new single-wavelength solution that allows for increased light power and eliminates problematic chromatic aberrations. Then, we demonstrate that a radial multi-offset detection pattern with an offset distance of 8-10 Airy Disk Diameter (ADD) is optimal to detect photons multiply scattered in all directions from weakly reflective retinal cells thereby enhancing their contrast. This new setup and image processing pipeline led to improved imaging of inner retinal cells, including the first images of microglia with multi-offset imaging in AOSLO.
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- Elena Gofas-Salas
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
- Denotes that each of these authors contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
- Eye center of Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Hunan Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Changsha, Hunan 401302, China
- Denotes that each of these authors contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
- McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 15106, USA
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Vienola KV, Dansingani KK, Eller AW, Martel JN, Snyder VC, Rossi EA. Multimodal Imaging of Torpedo Maculopathy With Fluorescence Adaptive Optics Imaging of Individual Retinal Pigmented Epithelial Cells. Front Med (Lausanne) 2021; 8:769308. [PMID: 34957148 PMCID: PMC8698897 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.769308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
Torpedo maculopathy (TM) is a rare congenital defect of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). The RPE is often evaluated clinically using fundus autofluorescence (AF), a technique that visualizes RPE structure at the tissue level from the intrinsic AF of RPE fluorophores. TM lesions typically emit little or no AF, but this macroscopic assessment is unable to resolve the RPE cells, leaving the organization of the RPE cell mosaic in TM unknown. We used fluorescence adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) to show here for the first time the microscopic cellular-level structural alterations to the RPE cell mosaic in TM that underlie the tissue-level changes seen in conventional clinical imaging. We evaluated two patients with TM using conventional clinical imaging techniques and adaptive optics (AO) infrared autofluorescence (IRAF) in AOSLO. Confocal AOSLO revealed relatively normal cones outside the TM lesion but altered cone appearance within it and along its margins in both patients. We quantified cone topography and RPE cell morphometry from the fovea to the margin of the lesion in case 1 and found cone density to be within the normal range across the locations imaged. However, RPE morphometric analysis revealed disrupted RPE cells outside the margin of the lesion; the mean RPE cell area was greater than two standard deviations above the normative range up to approximately 1.5 mm from the lesion margin. Similar morphometric changes were seen to individual RPE cells in case 2. Multi-modal imaging with AOSLO reveals that RPE cells are abnormal in TM well beyond the margins of the characteristic TM lesion boundary defined with conventional clinical imaging. Since the TM fovea appears to be fully formed, with normal cone packing, it is possible that the congenital RPE defect in TM occurs relatively late in retinal development. This work demonstrates how cellular level imaging of the RPE can provide new insight into RPE pathologies, particularly for rare conditions such as TM.
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- Kari V Vienola
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.,Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.,McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Valente D, Vienola KV, Zawadzki RJ, Jonnal RS. Simultaneous directional full-field OCT using path-length and carrier multiplexing. Opt Express 2021; 29:32179-32195. [PMID: 34615295 PMCID: PMC8687100 DOI: 10.1364/oe.435761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Revised: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Full-field swept-source optical coherence tomography (FF-SS-OCT) is an emerging technology with potential applications in ophthalmic imaging, microscopy, metrology, and other domains. Here we demonstrate a novel method of multiplexing FF-SS-OCT signals using carrier modulation (CM). The principle of CM could be used to inspect various properties of the scattered light, e.g. its spectrum, polarization, Doppler shift, or distribution in the pupil. The last of these will be explored in this work, where CM was used to acquire images passing through two different optical pupils. The two pupils contained semicircular optical windows with perpendicular orientations, with each window permitting measurement of scattering anisotropy in one dimension by inducing an optical delay between the images formed by the two halves of the pupil. Together, the two forms of multiplexing permit measurement of differential scattering anisotropy in the x and y dimensions simultaneously. To demonstrate the feasibility of this technique our carrier multiplexed directional FF-OCT (CM-D-FF-OCT) system was used to acquire images of a microlens array, human hair, onion skin and in vivo human retina. The results of these studies are presented and briefly discussed in the context of future development and application of this technique.
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- Denise Valente
- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
- EyePod Small Animal Ocular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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Valente D, Vienola KV, Zawadzki RJ, Jonnal RS. Kilohertz retinal FF-SS-OCT and flood imaging with hardware-based adaptive optics. Biomed Opt Express 2020; 11:5995-6011. [PMID: 33150001 PMCID: PMC7587251 DOI: 10.1364/boe.403509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2020] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
A retinal imaging system was designed for full-field (FF) swept-source (SS) optical coherence tomography (OCT) with cellular resolution. The system incorporates a real-time adaptive optics (AO) subsystem and a very high-speed CMOS sensor, and is capable of acquiring volumetric images of the retina at rates up to 1 kHz. While digital aberration correction (DAC) is an attractive potential alternative to AO, it has not yet been shown to provide resolution allowing visualization of cones in the fovea, where early detection of functional deficits is most critical. Here we demonstrate that FF-SS-OCT with hardware AO permits resolution of foveal cones, imaged at eccentricities of 1° and 2°, with volume rates adequate to measure light-evoked changes in photoreceptors. With the reference arm blocked, the system can operate as a kilohertz AO flood illumination fundus camera with adjustable temporal coherence and is expected to allow measurement of light-evoked changes caused by common path interference in photoreceptor outer segments (OS). In this paper, we describe the system's optical design, characterize its performance, and demonstrate its ability to produce images of the human photoreceptor mosaic.
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- Denise Valente
- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
- EyePod Small Animal Ocular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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Azimipour M, Valente D, Vienola KV, Werner JS, Zawadzki RJ, Jonnal RS. Optoretinogram: optical measurement of human cone and rod photoreceptor responses to light. Opt Lett 2020; 45:4658-4661. [PMID: 32870829 PMCID: PMC7891461 DOI: 10.1364/ol.398868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
Noninvasive, objective measurement of rod function is as significant as that of cone function, and for retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration, rod function may be a more sensitive biomarker of disease progression and efficacy of treatment than cone function. Functional imaging of single human rod photoreceptors, however, has proven difficult because their small size and rapid functional response pose challenges for the resolution and speed of the imaging system. Here, we describe light-evoked, functional responses of human rods and cones, measured noninvasively using a synchronized adaptive optics optical coherence tomography (OCT) and scanning light ophthalmoscopy (SLO) system. The higher lateral resolution of the SLO images made it possible to confirm the identity of rods in the corresponding OCT volumes.
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- Mehdi Azimipour
- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, UC Davis Eye Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, UC Davis Eye Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, UC Davis Eye Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, UC Davis Eye Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, UC Davis Eye Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
- EyePod Small Animal Ocular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory (VSRI), Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, UC Davis Eye Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
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Vienola KV, Zhang M, Snyder VC, Sahel JA, Dansingani KK, Rossi EA. Microstructure of the retinal pigment epithelium near-infrared autofluorescence in healthy young eyes and in patients with AMD. Sci Rep 2020; 10:9561. [PMID: 32533046 PMCID: PMC7293312 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66581-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2019] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) cells are essential for maintaining normal visual function, especially in their role in the visual cycle, and are thought to be one of the first cell classes affected by age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Clinical imaging systems routinely evaluate the structure of the RPE at the tissue level, but cellular level information may provide valuable RPE biomarkers of health, aging and disease. In this exploratory study, participants were imaged with 795 nm excitation in adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) to observe the microstructure of the near-infrared autofluorescence (AO-IRAF) from the RPE layer in healthy retinas and patients with AMD. The expected hexagonal mosaic of RPE cells was only sometimes seen in normal eyes, while AMD patients exhibited highly variable patterns of altered AO-IRAF. In some participants, AO-IRAF structure corresponding to cones was observed, as we have demonstrated previously. In some AMD patients, marked alterations in the pattern of AO-IRAF could be seen even in areas where the RPE appeared relatively normal in clinical imaging modalities, such as spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). AO-IRAF imaging using AOSLO offers promise for better detection and understanding of early RPE changes in the course of AMD, potentially before clinical signs appear.
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- Kari V Vienola
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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Vienola KV, Damodaran M, Braaf B, Vermeer KA, de Boer JF. In vivo retinal imaging for fixational eye motion detection using a high-speed digital micromirror device (DMD)-based ophthalmoscope. Biomed Opt Express 2018; 9:591-602. [PMID: 29552396 PMCID: PMC5854061 DOI: 10.1364/boe.9.000591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Revised: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 12/19/2017] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Retinal motion detection with an accuracy of 0.77 arcmin corresponding to 3.7 µm on the retina is demonstrated with a novel digital micromirror device based ophthalmoscope. By generating a confocal image as a reference, eye motion could be measured from consecutively measured subsampled frames. The subsampled frames provide 7.7 millisecond snapshots of the retina without motion artifacts between the image points of the subsampled frame, distributed over the full field of view. An ophthalmoscope pattern projection speed of 130 Hz enabled a motion detection bandwidth of 65 Hz. A model eye with a scanning mirror was built to test the performance of the motion detection algorithm. Furthermore, an in vivo motion trace was obtained from a healthy volunteer. The obtained eye motion trace clearly shows the three main types of fixational eye movements. Lastly, the obtained eye motion trace was used to correct for the eye motion in consecutively obtained subsampled frames to produce an averaged confocal image correct for motion artefacts.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kari V. Vienola
- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160D, 3011 BH Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Damodaran M, Vienola KV, Braaf B, Vermeer KA, de Boer JF. Digital micromirror device based ophthalmoscope with concentric circle scanning. Biomed Opt Express 2017; 8:2766-2780. [PMID: 28663905 PMCID: PMC5480512 DOI: 10.1364/boe.8.002766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2017] [Revised: 04/22/2017] [Accepted: 04/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Retinal imaging is demonstrated using a novel scanning light ophthalmoscope based on a digital micromirror device with 810 nm illumination. Concentric circles were used as scan patterns, which facilitated fixation by a human subject for imaging. An annular illumination was implemented in the system to reduce the background caused by corneal reflections and thereby to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio. A 1.9-fold increase in the signal-to-noise ratio was found by using an annular illumination aperture compared to a circular illumination aperture, resulting in a 5-fold increase in imaging speed and a better signal-to-noise ratio compared to our previous system. We tested the imaging performance of our system by performing non-mydriatic imaging on two subjects at a speed of 7 Hz with a maximum 20° (diameter) field of view. The images were shot noise limited and clearly show various anatomical features of the retina with high contrast.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mathi Damodaran
- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
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- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
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- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160D, 3011 BH Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
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- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
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A parallel line scanning ophthalmoscope (PLSO) is presented using a digital micromirror device (DMD) for parallel confocal line imaging of the retina. The posterior part of the eye is illuminated using up to seven parallel lines, which were projected at 100 Hz. The DMD offers a high degree of parallelism in illuminating the retina compared to traditional scanning laser ophthalmoscope systems utilizing scanning mirrors. The system operated at the shot-noise limit with a signal-to-noise ratio of 28 for an optical power measured at the cornea of 100 μW. To demonstrate the imaging capabilities of the system, the macula and the optic nerve head of a healthy volunteer were imaged. Confocal images show good contrast and lateral resolution with a 10°×10° field of view.
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Braaf B, Vermeer KA, de Groot M, Vienola KV, de Boer JF. Fiber-based polarization-sensitive OCT of the human retina with correction of system polarization distortions. Biomed Opt Express 2014; 5:2736-58. [PMID: 25136498 PMCID: PMC4133002 DOI: 10.1364/boe.5.002736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2014] [Revised: 07/11/2014] [Accepted: 07/14/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) the use of single-mode fibers causes unpredictable polarization distortions which can result in increased noise levels and erroneous changes in calculated polarization parameters. In the current paper this problem is addressed by a new Jones matrix analysis method that measures and corrects system polarization distortions as a function of wavenumber by spectral analysis of the sample surface polarization state and deeper located birefringent tissue structures. This method was implemented on a passive-component depth-multiplexed swept-source PS-OCT system at 1040 nm which was theoretically modeled using Jones matrix calculus. High-resolution B-scan images are presented of the double-pass phase retardation, diattenuation, and relative optic axis orientation to show the benefits of the new analysis method for in vivo imaging of the human retina. The correction of system polarization distortions yielded reduced phase retardation noise, and better estimates of the diattenuation and the relative optic axis orientation in weakly birefringent tissues. The clinical potential of the system is shown by en face visualization of the phase retardation and optic axis orientation of the retinal nerve fiber layer in a healthy volunteer and a glaucoma patient with nerve fiber loss.
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Affiliation(s)
- Boy Braaf
- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University, de Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University, de Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University, de Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University, de Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Braaf B, Vienola KV, Sheehy CK, Yang Q, Vermeer KA, Tiruveedhula P, Arathorn DW, Roorda A, de Boer JF. Real-time eye motion correction in phase-resolved OCT angiography with tracking SLO. Biomed Opt Express 2013; 4:51-65. [PMID: 23304647 PMCID: PMC3539196 DOI: 10.1364/boe.4.000051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2012] [Revised: 12/05/2012] [Accepted: 12/05/2012] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In phase-resolved OCT angiography blood flow is detected from phase changes in between A-scans that are obtained from the same location. In ophthalmology, this technique is vulnerable to eye motion. We address this problem by combining inter-B-scan phase-resolved OCT angiography with real-time eye tracking. A tracking scanning laser ophthalmoscope (TSLO) at 840 nm provided eye tracking functionality and was combined with a phase-stabilized optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) system at 1040 nm. Real-time eye tracking corrected eye drift and prevented discontinuity artifacts from (micro)saccadic eye motion in OCT angiograms. This improved the OCT spot stability on the retina and consequently reduced the phase-noise, thereby enabling the detection of slower blood flows by extending the inter-B-scan time interval. In addition, eye tracking enabled the easy compounding of multiple data sets from the fovea of a healthy volunteer to create high-quality eye motion artifact-free angiograms. High-quality images are presented of two distinct layers of vasculature in the retina and the dense vasculature of the choroid. Additionally we present, for the first time, a phase-resolved OCT angiogram of the mesh-like network of the choriocapillaris containing typical pore openings.
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- Boy Braaf
- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam, Netherlands
- LaserLaB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University, de Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Vienola KV, Braaf B, Sheehy CK, Yang Q, Tiruveedhula P, Arathorn DW, de Boer JF, Roorda A. Real-time eye motion compensation for OCT imaging with tracking SLO. Biomed Opt Express 2012; 3:2950-63. [PMID: 23162731 PMCID: PMC3493227 DOI: 10.1364/boe.3.002950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2012] [Revised: 10/10/2012] [Accepted: 10/10/2012] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Fixational eye movements remain a major cause of artifacts in optical coherence tomography (OCT) images despite the increases in acquisition speeds. One approach to eliminate the eye motion is to stabilize the ophthalmic imaging system in real-time. This paper describes and quantifies the performance of a tracking OCT system, which combines a phase-stabilized optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) system and an eye tracking scanning laser ophthalmoscope (TSLO). We show that active eye tracking minimizes artifacts caused by eye drift and micro saccades. The remaining tracking lock failures caused by blinks and large saccades generate a trigger signal which signals the OCT system to rescan corrupted B-scans. Residual motion artifacts in the OCT B-scans are reduced to 0.32 minutes of arc (~1.6 µm) in an in vivo human eye enabling acquisition of high quality images from the optic nerve head and lamina cribrosa pore structure.
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- Kari V. Vienola
- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley,
CA, 94720, USA
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- Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717,
USA
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- School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley,
CA, 94720, USA
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- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH
Rotterdam, Netherlands
- LaserLAB, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University, de
Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley,
CA, 94720, USA
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Braaf B, Vermeer KA, Vienola KV, de Boer JF. Angiography of the retina and the choroid with phase-resolved OCT using interval-optimized backstitched B-scans. Opt Express 2012; 20:20516-34. [PMID: 23037099 DOI: 10.1364/oe.20.020516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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In conventional phase-resolved OCT blood flow is detected from phase changes between successive A-scans. Especially in high-speed OCT systems this results in a short evaluation time interval. This method is therefore often unable to visualize complete vascular networks since low flow velocities cause insufficient phase changes. This problem was solved by comparing B-scans instead of successive A-scans to enlarge the time interval. In this paper a detailed phase-noise analysis of our OCT system is presented in order to calculate the optimal time intervals for visualization of the vasculature of the human retina and choroid. High-resolution images of the vasculature of a healthy volunteer taken with various time intervals are presented to confirm this analysis. The imaging was performed with a backstitched B-scan in which pairs of small repeated B-scans are stitched together to independently control the time interval and the imaged lateral field size. A time interval of ≥ 2.5 ms was found effective to image the retinal vasculature down to the capillary level. The higher flow velocities of the choroid allowed a time interval of 0.64 ms to reveal its dense vasculature. Finally we analyzed depth-resolved histograms of volumetric phase-difference data to assess changes in amount of blood flow with depth. This analysis indicated different flow regimes in the retina and the choroid.
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- Boy Braaf
- Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Schiedamse Vest 160, 3011 BH Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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