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OPHTHALMIC SURGERY LASERS & IMAGING RETINA
Volume 50, Issue 11, Pages 740-743Publisher
SLACK INC
DOI: 10.3928/23258160-20191031-11
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To describe the presence of eyelashes artifact in ultra-widefield sweptsource optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA) images. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In this prospective, cross-sectional study, 52 healthy, young subjects were imaged with the SS-OCTA system. OCTA scans were taken in primary and extremes of gaze, and a montage was automatically created. The en face choriocapillaris images were then exported, and a semi-automated algorithm was used for subsequent quantitative analysis. RESULTS: The authors noted the presence of some linear regions of reduced brightness, which were assumed to represent a shadow effect due to patient eyelashes. In order to quantify this effect, the authors performed a quantitative analysis of the superior and inferior regions in the retinal and choroidal vessels. CONCLUSIONS: The authors' qualitative and quantitative analysis showed the presence of regions of false-positive hypoperfusion secondary to eyelashes artifacts. To the authors' knowledge, this represents the first description of this new type of shadowing artifact affecting OCTA images.
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