Clinical Science Imaging

Enhanced Depth Imaging Optical Coherence Tomography: Choroidal Thickness and Correlations With Age, Refractive Error, and Axial Length

Dafna Goldenberg, MD; Elad Moisseiev, MD; Michaela Goldstein, MD; Anat Loewenstein, MD; Adiel Barak, MD

  • Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging
  • July/August 2012 - Volume 43 · Issue 4: 296-301
  • DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20120426-02
Rights and Permissions

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:

To evaluate choroidal thickness at five macular locations and assess the correlations between choroidal thickness at these locations with age, refractive error, and axial length.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:

Eighty-four eyes from 42 healthy adult volunteers were included. Enhanced depth imaging by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography was performed, and choroidal thickness was measured at five macular locations: subfoveal and 3 mm nasal, temporal, superior, and inferior. Correlations of choroidal thickness at each location with age, refractive error, and axial length were analyzed.

RESULTS:

Mean choroidal thicknesses at the subfoveal, superior, inferior, temporal, and nasal locations were 293, 308, 264, 263, and 174 μm, respectively. A correlation was found between choroidal thickness, age, refractive error, and axial length at all locations.

CONCLUSION:

Mean subfoveal choroidal thickness in healthy adults is approximately 300 μm. A correlation was found between choroidal thickness and all parameters studied.

AUTHORS

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

The authors have no financial or proprietary interest in the materials presented herein.

Address correspondence to Elad Moisseiev, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, 6 Weitzman Street, Tel Aviv, Israel, 64239. E-mail: elad_moi@netvision.net.il

Received: June 20, 2011
Accepted: February 17, 2012
Posted Online: May 03, 2012

doi: 10.3928/15428877-20120426-02

Healio is intended for health care provider use and all comments will be posted at the discretion of the editors. We reserve the right not to post any comments with unsolicited information about medical devices or other products. At no time will Healio be used for medical advice to patients.

[X]