Characterization of Hyperreflective Dots by Structural and Angiographic Optical Coherence Tomography in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy and Healthy Subjects

Marie Elise Wistrup Torm; Birgit Sander; Mads Hornum; Paul Krohn; Henrik Birn; Michael Larsen

doi:10.3390/jcm11226646

Characterization of Hyperreflective Dots by Structural and Angiographic Optical Coherence Tomography in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy and Healthy Subjects

Marie Elise Wistrup Torm^*, Birgit Sander, Mads Hornum, Paul Krohn, Henrik Birn, Michael Larsen

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Hyperreflective dots are a common but highly variable feature of optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans of the retina. We studied the spatial characteristics and perfusion of hyperreflective dots using both structural and angiographic OCT B-scans of the macula in 16 eyes in 8 healthy subjects and 8 patients with diabetic retinopathy without macular edema. Hyperreflective dots were manually graded in a 1000 µm parafoveal area by number, diameter, location and perfusion status and traced through adjacent B-scans at 11 µm intervals to determine their length. Thereby, this study defined a procedure to identify granular and elongated hyperreflective elements and differentiate between presumably perfused and occluded capillaries. The latter were only found in the diabetic patients. This classification can potentially be automated to non-invasively identify capillary non-perfusion in vivo.

Original language	English
Article number	6646
Journal	Journal of Clinical Medicine
Volume	11
Issue	22
Number of pages	12
ISSN	2077-0383
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11226646
Publication status	Published - Nov 2022

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diabetic retinopathy
hyperreflective dots
methodological study
optical coherence tomography
optical coherence tomography angiography

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Characterization of Hyperreflective Dots by Structural and Angiographic Optical Coherence Tomography in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy and Healthy Subjects. / Torm, Marie Elise Wistrup; Sander, Birgit; Hornum, Mads et al.
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