Purpose To report the baseline characteristics of the participants in the Advanced Imaging for Glaucoma Study. To compare the participating sites for variations among subjects and the performance of imaging instruments. Design Multi-center longitudinal observational cohort study Methods A total of 788 participants (1,329 eyes) were enrolled from three academic referral centers. There were 145 participants (289 eyes) in the normal group, 394 participants (663 eyes) in the glaucoma suspect/preperimetric glaucoma group, and 249 participants (377 eyes) in the perimetric glaucoma group. Participants underwent a full clinical exam, standard automated perimetry, and imaging with time-domain and Fourier-domain optical ...

Objectives: This study aimed to compare the effect of bivalirudin and unfractionated heparin (UFH) on residual thrombus burden assessed by frequency-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT), and on angiographic indices of microvascular obstruction (MVO). Background: The efficacy of bivalirudin to inhibit thrombus formation inside the stent during percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) as compared to UFH is unknown. Methods: Sixty patients with coronary artery disease who underwent post-PCI FD-OCT were studied, including 20 patients treated with bivalirudin and 40 control patients treated with UFH, matched by clinical presentation, stent characteristics, and periprocedural medications. In-stent thrombus volume, thrombus score (number of quadrants with ...

Background The relationship between features of vulnerable plaque and angiographic coronary stenosis is unknown. Objectives The purpose of this study was to systematically investigate the absolute number, relative prevalence, and characteristics of thin-cap fibroatheroma (TCFA) at different degrees of stenosis using optical coherence tomography (OCT), intravascular ultrasound, and coronary angiography. Methods We identified 643 plaques from 255 subjects who underwent OCT imaging in all 3 coronary arteries. They were divided into 3 groups on the basis of angiographic diameter stenosis: Group A (30% to 49%, n = 325), Group B (50% to 69%, n = 227), and Group C (>70%, n = 91 ...

University of Pittsburgh Receives a 2014 NIH Grant for $726,299 for Novel Glaucoma Diagnostics for Structure a...

Purpose To determine the intra- and inter-visit reproducibility of ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer thickness measures using handheld optical coherence tomography (OCT) in sedated children with optic pathway gliomas and/or Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Design Prospective longitudinal cohort study Methods Children with sporadic optic pathway gliomas and/or NF1 who had ≥ 2 volumes acquired over the macula using handheld OCT during sedation for a clinically indicated MRI were eligible for the intra-visit cohort. Children with repeat handheld OCT imaging within 6 months were eligible for the inter-visit cohort. Total retinal thickness and ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer thickness were measured using ...

Systems and methods of analyzing an optical coherence tomography image of a retina are discussed. A 2-dimensional slice of the image can be aligned to produce an approximately horizontal image of the retina and an edge map based at least in part on the aligned slice. Also, at least one global representation can be determined based on a (multi-scale) spatial division, such as multi-scale spatial pyramid, on the slice and/or edge map. Creating the local features is based on the specified cell structure of the global representation. The local features can be constructed based on local binary pattern (LBP ...