In vivo human choroidal thickness measurements: evidence for diurnal fluctuations.

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Jamin S BrownRichard A Stone

Abstract

The authors applied partial coherence interferometry (PCI) to estimate the thickness of the human choroid in vivo and to learn whether it fluctuates during the day. By applying signal processing techniques to existing PCI tracings of human ocular axial length measurements, a signal modeling algorithm was developed and validated to determine the position and variability of a postretinal peak that, by analogy to animal studies, likely corresponds to the choroidal/scleral interface. The algorithm then was applied to diurnal axial eye length datasets. The postretinal peak was identified in 28% of subjects in the development and validation datasets, with mean subfoveal choroidal thicknesses of 307 and 293 microm, respectively. Twenty-eight of 40 diurnal PCI datasets had at least two time points with identifiable postretinal peaks, yielding a mean choroidal thickness of 426 microm and a mean high-low difference in choroidal thickness of 59.5 +/- 24.2 microm (range, 25.9-103 microm). The diurnal choroidal thickness fluctuation was larger than twice the SE of measurement (24.5 microm) in 16 of these 28 datasets. Axial length and choroidal thickness tended to fluctuate in antiphase. Signal processing techniques provide choroidal thickne...Continue Reading

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