title: Primate retina imaging with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography.
abstract: Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PSOCT) is applied to determine the depth-resolved polarization state of light backreflected from the eye. The birefringence of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) was observed and measured from PSOCT images recorded postmortem in a Rhesus monkey. An image-processing algorithm was developed to identify birefringent regions in acquired PSOCT retinal images and automatically determine the thickness of the RNFL. Values of the RNFL thickness determined from histology and PSOCT were compared. PSOCT may provide a new method to determine RNFL thickness and birefringence for glaucoma diagnostics.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Engineering Laser Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Ducros
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Marsack
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Rylander
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Thomsen
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Milner
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001718:Birefringence; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008027:Light; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008859:Microscopy, Polarization; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012160:Retina / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D014054:Tomography / Q000379:methods*