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Year : 2017 | Volume
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Evaluating ocular blood flow
Jyotsna Maram1, Sowmya Srinivas1, Srinivas R Sadda2
1 Doheny Image Reading Center, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA 2 Doheny Image Reading Center, Doheny Eye Institute; Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Correspondence Address:
Srinivas R Sadda Doheny Eye Institute, 1355 San Pablo St, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_330_17
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Studies have shown that vascular impairment plays an important role in the etiology and pathogenesis of various ocular diseases including glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal venous occlusive disease. Thus, qualitative and quantitative assessment of ocular blood flow (BF) is a topic of interest for early disease detection, diagnosis, and management. Owing to the rapid improvement in technology, there are several invasive and noninvasive techniques available for evaluating ocular BF, with each of these techniques having their own limitations and advantages. This article reviews these important techniques, with a particular focus on Doppler Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT-angiography.
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