Bingyao Tan, Jacqueline Chua, A. B. Veluchamy, B. Mani, A. Chan, L. Schmetterer
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Abstract
Choriocapillaris is a unique vascular plexus located posterior to the retinal pigment epithelium. In the recent years, there is an increasing interest to investigate choriocapillaris alteration and progression of eye diseases and aging, using the optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). However, standardized algorithm for analysis has not been developed. Herein, we present non-invasive, in-vivo, high-resolution images of the non-human primates’ choriocapillaris using OCTA. Images were acquired with a prototype swept-source OCTA (SS-OCTA) system with 100kHz A-scan/s rate, over regions of 3×3 mm2 and 12×12 mm2. The non-perfusion area, also called flow voids, were segmented with an intensity damped, illuminance-compensated algorithm. The optimized quantification of the choriocapillaris flow voids may have applications in a wide array of eye diseases including age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and visualization of choriocapillaris in animal models could aid future studies on choroid involvement in models of eye disease.