ArticleBiomedical optics express2019
Visualizing choriocapillaris using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography with various probe beam sizes.
Article in Biomedical optics express, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Identification and quantification of oral lymphatic vessel networks using optical coherence tomography (OCT).Biomedical optics express · 2026Article
- Hyporeflective Core Drusen Cause an Artifactual Bending of Bruch's Membrane on OCT Images: Optical Mechanism and Proposed Quantitative Metrics.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2026Observational
- Quantification of Normative Human Choriocapillaris Measures Across the Macula.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Wide-field choriocapillaris mapping with 3.4 MHz adaptive optics-optical coherence tomography angiography.Biomedical optics express · 2025Article
- Quantitative Optimization of Handheld Probe External Pressure on Dermatological Microvasculature Using Optical Coherence Tomography-Based Angiography.Micromachines · 2024Article
- Calcified Drusen Prevent the Detection of Underlying Choriocapillaris Using Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2024Article
- Effect of mydriasis on macular and peripapillary metrics in swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
- Extending field-of-view of retinal imaging by optical coherence tomography using convolutional Lissajous and slow scan patterns.Biomedical optics express · 2022Article
- Guidelines for Imaging the Choriocapillaris Using OCT Angiography.American journal of ophthalmology · 2021Review
- Evaluation of the different thresholding strategies for quantifying choriocapillaris using optical coherence tomography angiography.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2020Article
- Quantification of Choriocapillaris with Phansalkar Local Thresholding: Pitfalls to Avoid.American journal of ophthalmology · 2020Article
- Automated morphometric measurement of the retinal pigment epithelium complex and choriocapillaris using swept source OCT.Biomedical optics express · 2020Article
- Advances in swept-source optical coherence tomography and optical coherence tomography angiography.Advances in ophthalmology practice and researchReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Imaging choriocapillaris (CC) is a long-term challenge for commercial OCT angiography (OCTA) systems due to limited transverse resolution. Effects of transverse resolution on the visualization of a CC microvascular network are explored and demonstrated in this paper. We use three probe beams with sizes of ~1.12 mm, ~2.51 mm and ~3.50 mm at the pupil plane, which deliver an estimated transverse resolution at the retina of 17.5 µm, 8.8 µm and 7.0 µm, respectively, to investigate the ability of OCTA to resolve the CC capillary vessels. The complex optical microangiography algorithm is applied to extract blood flow in the CC slab. Mean retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) to CC (RPE-CC) distance, mean CC inter-vascular spacing and the magnitude in the radially-averaged power spectrum are quantified. We demonstrate that a clearer CC lobular capillary network is resolved in the angiograms provided by a larger beam size. The image contrast of the CC angiogram with a large beam size of 3.50 mm is 114% higher than that with a small beam size of 1.12 mm. While the measurements of the mean RPE-CC distance and CC inter-vascular spacing are almost consistent regardless of the beam sizes, they are more reliable and stable with the larger beam size of 3.50 mm. We conclude that the beam size is a key parameter for CC angiography if the purpose of the investigation is to visualize the individual CC capillaries.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.