title: Spectral domain optical coherence tomography for quantitative evaluation of drusen and associated structural changes in non-neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To demonstrate how spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) can better evaluate drusen and associated anatomical changes in eyes with non-neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) compared with time domain optical coherence tomography (TDOCT).
  
  
  METHODS
  Images were obtained from three eyes of three patients with AMD using an experimental SDOCT system. Both a titanium-sapphire (Ti:sapphire) laser and a superluminescent diode (SLD) were used as a broadband light source to achieve cross-sectional images of the retina. A qualitative and quantitative analysis was performed for structural changes associated with non-neovascular AMD. An automated algorithm was developed to analyse drusen area and volume from SDOCT images. TDOCT was performed using the fast macular scan (StratusOCT, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, California).
  
  
  RESULTS
  SDOCT images can demonstrate structural changes associated with non-neovascular AMD. A new SDOCT algorithm can determine drusen area, drusen volume and proportion of drusen.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With new algorithms to determine drusen area and volume and its unprecedented simultaneous ultra-high speed ultra-high resolution imaging, SDOCT can improve the evaluation of structural abnormalities in non-neovascular AMD.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mujat
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Seddon
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: de Boer
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D015593:Retinal Drusen / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods