Advances on the morphological evaluation of retinal vessels by optical coherence tomography angiography

doi:10.3877/cma.j.issn.2095-2007.2022.01.009

Abstract

Abstract:

As a new noninvasive fundus vessel examination technology, optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) can display the form of the layers of retinal vessels efficiently, clearly and intuitively without using contrast agent. In recent 10 years, OCTA has been widely used to evaluate a series of retinal vascular diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, retinal vein occlusion, retinal artery occlusion, age-related macular degeneration, inflammatory diseases and so on. Therefore, the methods of evaluating retinal vascular morphology with OCTA and its practical application in the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases were reviewed in this paper.

Key words: Optical coherence tomography angiography, Retinal vessels, Morphology

Chenxi Hu, Chuhao Tang, Liang Han, Hongyu Duan, Tingting Yang, Yiyun Liu, Baikai Ma, Lin Zhao, Hong Qi. Advances on the morphological evaluation of retinal vessels by optical coherence tomography angiography[J]. Chinese Journal of Ophthalmologic Medicine(Electronic Edition), 2022, 12(01): 47-51.

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