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Quantifying the signal/noise ratio with perimetric stimuli optimised to probe changing spatial summation in glaucoma [Abstract]

Rountree, Lindsay, Mulholland, Padraig J., Anderson, Roger S., Morgan, James E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8920-1065, Garway-Heath, David and Redmond, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6997-5231 2017. Quantifying the signal/noise ratio with perimetric stimuli optimised to probe changing spatial summation in glaucoma [Abstract]. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 58 (8)

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Abstract

Purpose : Guided by changes in spatial summation in glaucoma, we undertook a cross-sectional prospective study to compare disease signal, response variability, and signal/noise ratio (SNR) between perimetric stimuli varying in area, contrast, and both simultaneously, in patients with glaucoma and age-similar healthy controls. Methods : Participants were 30 glaucoma patients (median [interquartile range] age: 70.4 years [66.2, 73.5], MD: -4.04dB [-9.65, -2.85]) and 20 controls (age: 69.3 years [66.1, 77.8], MD +0.38dB [-0.36, +0.91]). Using a 3-stage approach (1: staircase procedure; 2: short Method of Constant Stimuli (MOCS, 180 presentations); 3: extended MOCS (640 presentations)), threshold (50% seen) and response variability (slope) were measured for 200ms achromatic spot stimuli, presented at 4 diagonal locations (9.9° from fixation). Stimuli were: A - fixed contrast (ΔI: 0.5, starting within Ricco’s area), varying in area; C1 - fixed area (0.02deg2, within Ricco’s area), varying in contrast; AC - varying in both area and contrast simultaneously (starting within Ricco’s area); C2 - fixed area (0.15deg2), equivalent to Goldmann III, varying in contrast. Stimuli were defined by a common scale (energy: luminance x area x duration). Step size and visibility were equated across all stimulus forms. Total deviation (TD, calculated from healthy subjects for each stimulus form), slope, and SNR (TD/slope) were compared between stimuli per hemifield in three TD strata (upper, middle, lower, according to TD for the C2 stimulus). Results : Overall, the greatest disease signal was found with A and AC stimuli (Fig.1A). Response variability was least dependent on depth of defect with the A stimulus, and most for the C2 stimulus (Fig.1B). The SNR was greatest for the A stimulus, and the difference from that for the C2 stimulus was statistically significant in the superior hemifield in the middle (p=0.04) and lower (p=0.049) strata (Fig.2). Conclusions : Area-modulated stimuli likely offer benefits for measuring glaucomatous changes in spatial summation, in the form of greater disease signal and least dependence on depth of defect than conventional fixed-area, contrast-modulated stimuli. This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Optometry and Vision Sciences
Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
ISSN: 0146-0404
Funders: College of Optometrists
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 4 September 2017
Last Modified: 02 Nov 2022 11:31
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/102307

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