ABSTRACT
A prototype 6-µm axial resolution spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) device was used to image the retina of a patient with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus who had proliferative diabetic retinopathy with subhyaloid hemorrhage. A raster scan pattern with 128 B-scans covering a 6 × 6 × 2-mm volume of the retina was obtained. SD-OCT showed the presence of blood localized between the internal limiting membrane and the posterior hyaloid face and allowed visualization of the cross sectional retinal architecture and the vitreoretinal interface at different horizontal levels that could be registered with the color fundus photograph. SD-OCT provided useful information about the relationship of the hemorrhage to the posterior hyaloid and the retina.[Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging 2008;39:494-496.]
AUTHORS
From the Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.
Accepted for publication September 20, 2007.
Research funding provided in part by a grant from Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, California (Drs. Punjabi, Gregori, Knighton, and Puliafito). Dr. Puliafito is a Research and Clinical Consultant for Carl Zeiss Meditec.
Supported in part by Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., New York, New York, and an unrestricted grant from Carl Zeiss Meditec.
Dr. Puliafito did not participate in the editorial review of this manuscript.
Address correspondence to Omar S. Punjabi, MD, 1638 NW 10th Ave., Miami, FL 33136.
