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ArticleBiomedical optics express2018

Noninvasive

Boyu Gu, Xiaolin Wang, Michael D Twa, Johnny Tam, Christopher A Girkin, Yuhua Zhang

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Article in Biomedical optics express, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Boyu GuDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1670 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Xiaolin WangDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1670 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Michael D TwaDepartment of Optometry and Vision Science, School of Optometry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1716 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Johnny TamNational Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Christopher A GirkinDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1670 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Yuhua ZhangDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1670 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · USNational Eye Institute · US

Funding

Adaptive Optics Retinal ImagingZIAEY000544 · NEI · NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE · PI TAM, JOHNNY · 2015 to 2025
$24.0M
Visual Phenotyping CoreP30EY003039 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI LAWRENCE C SINCICH · 1985 to 2026
$16.9M
In vivo Ultrastructure of Chorioretinal DiseaseR01EY024378 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ZHANG, YUHUA LIANG · 2015 to 2023
$2.9M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY003039NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024378
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The flow of erythrocytes in parafoveal capillaries was imaged in the living human eye with an adaptive optics near-confocal ophthalmoscope at a frame rate of 800 Hz with a low coherence near-infrared (NIR) light source. Spatiotemporal traces of the erythrocyte movement were extracted from consecutive images. Erythrocyte velocity was measured using custom software based on the Radon transform. The impact of imaging speed on velocity measurement was estimated using images of frame rates of 200, 400, and 800 Hz. The NIR light allowed for long imaging periods without visually stimulating the retina and disturbing the natural rheological state. High speed near-confocal imaging enabled direct and accurate measurement of erythrocyte velocity, and revealed a distinctively cardiac-dependent pulsatile velocity waveform of the erythrocyte flow in retinal capillaries, disclosed the impact of the leukocytes on erythrocyte motion, and provided new metrics for precise assessment of erythrocyte movement. The approach may facilitate new investigations on the pathophysiology of retinal microcirculation with applications for ocular and systemic diseases.

Indexed as

(120.3890) Medical optics instrumentation(170.0110) Imaging systems(170.4460) Ophthalmic optics and devices(220.1080) Active or adaptive optics(330.4300) Vision system - noninvasive assessment

Identifiers

PMID30338146
PMCPMC6191635
OpenAlexW2830179841

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