Atlas of Human Retinal Pigment Epithelium Organelles Significant for Clinical Imaging
Purpose : To quantify organelles impacting imaging in the cell body and intact apical processes of human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), including melanosomes, lipofuscin–melanolipofuscin (LM), mitochondria, and nuclei. Methods : A normal perifovea of a 21-year-old white male was preserved after rapid organ recovery. An aligned image stack was generated using serial block-face scanning electron microscopy and was annotated by expert readers (TrakEM, ImageJ). Acquired measures included cell body and nuclear volume ( n = 17); organelle count in apical processes ( n = 17) and cell bodies ( n = 8); distance of cell body organelles along a normalized apical–basal axis ( n = 8); and dimensions ...
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