High-resolution OCT: an innovative tool for posterior segment imaging.
Optimal management of posterior segment disorders requires a high-resolution and preferably noninvasive imaging tool for better definition of diseases. High-resolution optical coherence tomography can provide noninvasive, high-definition imaging of the posterior segment, allowing earlier diagnosis, better follow-up of chronic cases, and more accurate and timely monitoring of the effect of therapeutic agents. Recent findings suggest an individualized approach to vitreoretinal and choroidal diseases is possible based not only on traditional ophthalmic investigations, but also on high-resolution optical coherence tomography. This innovative tool has the combined advantages of high speed, high resolution, and safe use.
Doheny Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA. wabdalla@usc.edu
Walid F
WF
Abdallah
Lisa C
LC
Olmos de Koo
Mohamed M
MM
Abdulkader
Cullen
C
Barnett
Gerald J
GJ
Chader
Mark S
MS
Humayun
D015862:Choroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003941:Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological; D006801:Humans; D057972:Posterior Eye Segment; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*