OCT Angiography Artifacts in Glaucoma.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the prevalence of different types of artifacts seen in OCT angiography (OCTA) images of healthy and glaucoma eyes and evaluate the characteristics associated with poor-quality images.

Design

Retrospective study.

Participants

A total of 649 eyes of 368 healthy, glaucoma suspect, and glaucoma patients.

Methods

Angiovue (Optovue Inc) high-density (HD) and non-HD optic nerve head and macula OCTA images of participants were evaluated by 4 expert reviewers for the presence of different artifacts, including eye movement, defocus, shadow, decentration, segmentation error, blink, and Z offset in the superficial vascular layer. Each OCTA scan was designated to have good or poor quality based on the presence of artifacts. The association of demographi

SUBMITTER: Kamalipour A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8463411 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature