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ArticleOphthalmology science2022

Mapping Pulsatile Optic Nerve Head Deformation Using OCT.

Marissé Masís Solano, Emmanuelle Richer, Farida Cheriet, Mark R Lesk, Santiago Costantino

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Article in Ophthalmology science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marissé Masís SolanoMaisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Emmanuelle RicherMaisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Farida CherietDepartment of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Mark R LeskMaisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Santiago CostantinoMaisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont · CAPolytechnique Montréal · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: To develop a noninvasive technique to quantitatively assess the pulsatile deformation due to cardiac contractions of the optic nerve head (ONH). Design: Evaluation of a diagnostic test or technology. Participants: Healthy subjects with no history of refractive surgery, divided into 2 cohorts on the basis of their axial length (AL). Methods: We present a noninvasive technique to quantitatively assess the pulsatile deformation of the ONH tissue by combining high-frequency OCT imaging and widely available image processing algorithms. We performed a thorough validation of the approach, numerically and experimentally, evaluating the sensitivity of the method to artificially induced deformation and its robustness to different noise levels. We performed deformation measurements in cohorts of healthy (n = 9) and myopic (n = 5) subjects in different physiological strain conditions by calculating the amplitude of tissue displacement in both the primary position and abduction. The head rotation was measured using a goniometer. During imaging in abduction, the head was rotated 40° ± 3°, and subjects were instructed to direct their gaze toward the OCT visual target. Main Outcome Measures: Pulsatile tissue displacement maps. Results: The robustness of the method was assessed using artificial deformations and increasing noise levels. The results show acceptable absolute errors before the noise simulations grossly exaggerate image degradation. For the group of subjects with AL of < 25 mm (n = 9), the median pulsatile displacement of the ONH was 7.8 ± 1.3 μm in the primary position and 8.9 ± 1.2 μm in abduction. The Wilcoxon test showed a significant difference ( Conclusions: The computational pipeline demonstrated good reproducibility and had the capacity to accurately map the pulsatile deformation of the optic nerve. In a clinical setting, we detected physiological changes in normal subjects supporting its translation potential as a novel biomarker for the diagnosis and progression of optic nerve diseases.

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Dynamic OCTGlaucomaOcular biomechanicsOptic nerve headPulsatile deformation.

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PMID36531582
PMCPMC9754981
OpenAlexW4290038696

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