Imaging the Infant Retina with a Hand-held Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Device

摘要

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT) IS A diagnostic imaging method that provides information about the vitreoretinal interface and the architecture of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) beyond what can be characterized fully by biomi-croscopy alone. OCT provides in vivo information about retinal morphologic features in a rapid, noninvasive, and noncontact manner. Thus, it is an ideal tool for characterization of retinal pathologic features in children. Shields and associates performed time-domain (TD) OCT on a series of 56 eyes of 56 children younger than 18 years (range, four to seven years)