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INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE
Volume 52, Issue 10, Pages 7232-7237Publisher
ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7623
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- Clinical Translational Science Award
- Translational Technology Resource Grant [UL1RR025767]
- National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute [R01 EY014211, EY018855]
- Department of Veterans Affairs
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PURPOSE. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the human retina faces two major challenges: eye movement and hardware limitation that could preclude human retinal MRI with adequate spatiotemporal resolution. This study investigated eye-fixation stability and high-resolution anatomic MRI of the human retina on a 3-Tesla (T) MRI scanner. Comparison was made with optical coherence tomography (OCT) on the same subjects. METHODS. Eye-fixation stability of protocols used in MRI was evaluated on four normal volunteers using an eye tracker. High-resolution MRI (100 x 200 x 2000 mu m) protocol was developed on a 3-T scanner. Subjects were instructed to maintain stable eye fixation on a target with cued blinks every 8 seconds during MRI. OCT imaging of the retina was performed. Retinal layer thicknesses measured with MRI and OCT were analyzed for matching regions of the same eyes close to the optic nerve head. RESULTS. The temporal SDs of the horizontal and vertical displacements were 78 +/- 51 and 130 +/- 51 mu m (+/- SD, n = 4), respectively. MRI detected three layers within the human retina, consistent with MRI findings in rodent, feline, and baboon retinas. The hyperintense layer 1 closest to the vitreous likely consisted of nerve fiber, ganglion cell, and inner nuclear layer; the hypointense layer 2, the outer nuclear layer and the inner and outer segments; and the hyperintense layer 3, the choroid. The MRI retina/choroid thickness was 711 +/- 37 mu m, 19% (P < 0.05) thicker than OCT thickness (579 +/- 34 mu m). CONCLUSIONS. This study reports high-resolution MRI of laminaspecific structures in the human retina. These initial results are encouraging. Further improvement in spatiotemporal resolution is warranted. (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011;52:7232-7237) DOI:10.1167/iovs.11-7623
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