Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography and Conventional Retinal Imaging Strategies in Assessing Foveal Integrity in Geographic Atrophy
Purpose : To compare current imaging methods with respect to their ability to detect the condition of the fovea in patients with geographic atrophy (GA). Methods : The retinas of 176 eyes with GA were imaged using two spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) systems, Cirrus HD-OCT and Spectralis HRA+OCT, and fundus autofluorescence (FAF) and infrared imaging (IR) was used in the scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) mode. Polarization-sensitive OCT (PS-OCT), which selectively visualizes the RPE in addition to SD-OCT features, was used to image 95 eyes. Geographic atrophy lesions were categorized as fovea spared, involved, or not quantifiable (grades 0, 1, and ...
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