Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Artifacts in Glaucoma

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of different types of artifacts seen in optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images of healthy and glaucoma eyes and to evaluate the characteristics associated with the increased likelihood of obtaining poor quality images. Design: Retrospective study. Participants: A total of 649 eyes of 368 healthy, glaucoma suspect, and glaucoma patients. Methods: Angiovue high density (HD) and non-HD optic nerve head and macula OCTA images of participants were evaluated by 4 expert reviewers for the presence of different artifacts including eye movement, defocus, shadow, decentration, segmentation error, blink and Z offset in the superficial vascular layer ...