Optophysiological Characterisation of Inner Retina Responses with High-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography.

ABSTRACT: Low coherence laser interferometry has revolutionised quantitative biomedical imaging of optically transparent structures at cellular resolutions. We report the first optical recording of neuronal excitation at cellular resolution in the inner retina by quantifying optically recorded stimulus-evoked responses from the retinal ganglion cell layer and comparing them with an electrophysiological standard. We imaged anaesthetised paralysed tree shrews, gated image acquisition, and used numerical filters to eliminate noise arising from retinal movements during respiratory and cardiac cycles. We observed increases in contrast variability in the retinal ganglion cell layer and nerve fibre layer with flash stimuli and gratings. Regions of interest were subdivided into three-dimensional patches (up

SUBMITTER: Erchova I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5788978 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature