ArticleBiomedical optics express2017
Three-dimensional MRI study of the relationship between eye dimensions, retinal shape and myopia.
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Refractive error and axial length prediction using fundus parameters of normal eyes in the Kumejima population study.Japanese journal of ophthalmology · 2025Observational
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- Macular curvature in vertical cross sections of optical coherence tomography in school age children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Retinal curvature in Chinese children with myopia measured by ultra-widefield swept-source optical coherence tomography.The British journal of ophthalmology · 2025Article
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- Accommodative behaviour and retinal defocus in highly myopic eyes fitted with a dual focus myopia control contact lens.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2025Article
- Relationships among eye dimensions in magnetic resonance images by sex, age, and strabismus type in Japanese patients with acquired strabismus and high myopia.Japanese journal of ophthalmology · 2024Article
- Impact of Genetic and Environmental Factors on Peripheral Refraction.Translational vision science & technology · 2024Article
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Abstract
We investigated changes in eye dimensions and retinal shape with degree of myopia, gender and race. There were 58 young adult emmetropes and myopes (range -1.25D to -8.25D), with 30 East-Asians (21 female/9 male), 23 Caucasians (16/7) and 5 South-Asians (1/4). Three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging was undertaken with a 3.0 Tesla whole-body clinical MRI system using a 4.0 cm receive-only surface coil positioned over the eye. Automated methods determined eye length, width and height, and curve fitting procedures determined asymmetric and symmetric ellipsoid shapes to 75%, 55% and 35% of the retina. With myopia increase, eye dimensions increased in all directions such that increase in length was considerably greater than increases in width and height. Emmetropic retinas were oblate (steepening away from the vertex) but oblateness decreased with the increase in myopia, so that retinas were approximately spherical at 7 to 8D myopia. Asymmetry of eyes about the best fit visual axis was generally small, with small differences between the vertex radii of curvature and between asphericities in the axial and sagittal planes. Females had smaller eyes than males, with overall dimensions being about 0.5mm less for the former. Race appeared not to have a systematic effect.
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