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ArticleJournal of biophotonics2020

Visibility of microvessels in Optical Coherence Tomography angiography depends on angular orientation.

Jun Zhu, Marcel T Bernucci, Conrad W Merkle, Vivek J Srinivasan

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Article in Journal of biophotonics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Jun ZhuBiomedical Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7905-7856
Marcel T BernucciBiomedical Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.
Conrad W MerkleBiomedical Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.
Vivek J SrinivasanBiomedical Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.

Funding

True Sub-Micron Ocular Diagnostics with Visible Light Optical Coherence TomographyR01EY031469 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI SRINIVASAN, VIVEK JAY · 2020 to 2023
$2.3M
Human Brain Interferometers for Better Blood Flow MonitoringR01EB029747 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI SRINIVASAN, VIVEK JAY · 2020 to 2023
$2.2M
Structural and functional tests of ganglion cell damage in glaucomaR01EY030361 · NEI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GOLDBERG, JEFFREY L, NORCIA, ANTHONY M · 2019 to 2022
$2.1M
Imaging Neuronal and Capillary Dysfunction Deep in the Rodent Brain in vivo Using 1700 NM Optical Coherence Microscopy and Tracer-Based KineticsR01NS094681 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI SRINIVASAN, VIVEK JAY · 2015 to 2019
$1.6M
Development, Validation and Application of Metabolic Imaging in GlaucomaR01EY028287 · NEI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI DUBRA, ALFREDO, GOLDBERG, JEFFREY L · 2017 to 2019
$1.1M
Interferometric Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Tissue Flowmetry and OximetryR21NS105043 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI SRINIVASAN, VIVEK JAY · 2017 to 2018
$432k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical Coherence Tomography angiography (OCTA) is a widespread tool for depth-resolved imaging of chorioretinal vasculature with single microvessel resolution. To improve the clinical interpretation of OCTA, the conditions affecting visualization of microvessels must be defined. Here we inject a scattering plasma tracer (Intralipid) during OCTA imaging of the anesthetized rat eye. In the retina, we find that interlaminar (vertical) vessels that connect laminae have one-fourth to one-third the OCTA red blood cell to tracer (RBC-to-tracer) signal ratio of intralaminar (horizontal) vessels. This finding suggests that the OCTA signal from microvessels depends on angular orientation, making vertically-oriented vessels more difficult to visualize using intrinsic contrast alone. Clinicians should be aware of this potential artifact when interpreting OCTA.

Indexed as

AngiographyTomography, Optical CoherenceArtifactsMicrovesselsRetinaangular dependenceoptical coherence tomography; angiographyretina; choroidscatteringvasculature

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PMID32468737
PMCPMC7737355

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