Performance of time-domain and spectral-domain Optical Coherence Tomography for glaucoma screening

• Published in: Acta ophthalmologica (Oxford, England) Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 310 - 315
• Main Authors: Bengtsson, Boel, Andersson, Sabina, Heijl, Anders
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2012
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Clinical Medicine; diagnosis; Exfoliation Syndrome - classification; Exfoliation Syndrome - diagnosis; False Positive Reactions; Female; glaucoma; Glaucoma, Open-Angle - classification; Glaucoma, Open-Angle - diagnosis; Humans; Intraocular Pressure; Klinisk medicin; Male; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Middle Aged; Nerve Fibers - pathology; Oftalmologi; Ophthalmology; Optic Disk - pathology; Optic Nerve Diseases - diagnosis; optical coherence tomography; Original; Predictive Value of Tests; Retinal Ganglion Cells - pathology; retinal nerve fibre layer thickness; Rural Population; screening; Sensitivity and Specificity; Sweden; Time Factors; Tomography, Optical Coherence - instrumentation; Sweden

. Purpose:  To investigate the measures of validity for selective or population screening of the time‐domain Stratus and the spectral‐domain Cirrus Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging techniques in a population‐based sample and in clinical glaucoma patients at different stages of glaucoma. Pa...