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ArticleScientific reports2021

Total flow intensity, active flow intensity and volume related flow intensity as new quantitative metrics in optical coherence tomography angiography.

Alessandro Arrigo, Cristian Perra, Emanuela Aragona, Daniele Giusto, Francesco Bandello, Maurizio Battaglia Parodi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alessandro ArrigoDepartment of Ophthalmology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, University Vita-Salute, via Olgettina 60, 20132, Milan, Italy. alessandro.arrigo@hotmail.com.
Cristian PerraCNIT Research Unit, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE), University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
Emanuela AragonaDepartment of Ophthalmology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, University Vita-Salute, via Olgettina 60, 20132, Milan, Italy.
Daniele GiustoCNIT Research Unit, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE), University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
Francesco BandelloDepartment of Ophthalmology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, University Vita-Salute, via Olgettina 60, 20132, Milan, Italy.
Maurizio Battaglia ParodiDepartment of Ophthalmology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, University Vita-Salute, via Olgettina 60, 20132, Milan, Italy.
IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele · ITUniversity of Cagliari · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography (OCTA) is a non-invasive tool for the in-vivo study of the intraretinal vascular network. It is based on the analysis of motion particles within the retina to reconstruct the paths followed by the erythrocytes, i.e. retinal capillaries. To date, qualitative and quantitative information are based on the morphological features disclosed by retinal capillaries. In the present study, we proposed new quantitative functional metrics, named Total Flow Intensity (TFI), Active Flow Intensity (AFI), and Volume-related Flow Intensity (VFI), based on the processing of the blood flow signal detected by OCTA. We studied these metrics in a cohort of healthy subjects, and we assessed their clinical utility by including a cohort of age-matched patients affected by Stargardt disease. Moreover, we compared TFI, AFI, and VFI to the widely used vessel density (VD) parameter. TFI, AFI, and VFI were able to describe in detail the different properties of the retinal vascular compartment. In particular, TFI was intended as the overall amount of volumetric retinal blood flow. AFI represented a selective measure of voxels disclosing blood flow signal. VFI was developed to put in relationship the volumetric blood flow information with the not vascularized retinal volume. In conclusion, TFI, AFI, and VFI were proposed as feasible functional OCTA biomarkers based on the analysis of retinal blood flow signal.

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Regional Blood FlowAdultAngiographyHumansMaleRetinaRetinal VesselsSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedStargardt DiseaseTomography, Optical Coherence

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