NCT00556114

A Pilot Study of Functional Optical Coherence Tomography for Ocular Imaging

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Irvine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Growing evidence shows that altered blood flow plays a major role in many vision-threatening diseases including glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, Central Retinal Vein Occlusion, and Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion. Optical coherence tomography, an established imaging technique use for eye exam in clinical ophthalmology, provides high-resolution cross sectional images of the retina and has increased our ability to understand many eye diseases.

Detailed description

Optical Coherence Tomography is a non-invasive technique use a broadband light source to illuminate the area of study with light in the near infrared spectrum, then obtains static images of tissue structure from interference signals of the back-reflected light. Optical Coherence Tomography a non-contact, non-invasive means of documenting both tissue structure and blood flow changes in ocular disease and can provide high resolution cross-sectional images of tissue structure, direct visualization of blood flow in blood vessels of the eye.

Conditions

• Glaucoma
• Diabetic Retinopathy
• Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• Central Retinal Vein Occlusion
• Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Optical Coherence Tomography	Optical Coherence Tomography

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-07-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2007-11-09
• Last updated: 2022-10-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States