Snapshot 3D Ultra-high-resolution OCT and Hyperspectral AF of In-vivo Retina
This study proposes to use a new instrument (AO-OCT/AF: adaptive optics - optical coherence tomography/autofluorescence) combined with a data processing method to image the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) of the eye in normal subjects and in subjects with age-related macular degeneration. (AMD). While currently there is no cure, with early diagnosis, vision loss can be slowed. The technology being developed for this project will be the first imaging modality that can provide both structural and molecular information about the retina in vivo and in 3D.
• Patients must be aged 60 and over and pseudophakic, with clear posterior capsule and dilation to 6mm.
• Patients must be diagnosed early/intermediate AMD in at least one eye (the study eye) with soft drusen or reticular pseudodrusen in the macula.