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Reproducibility of Anterior Chamber Angle Measurements Obtained with Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography

¹From the Wilmer Eye Institute, Baltimore, Maryland; the ²National University Hospital of Singapore, Singapore; the ³Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland, Ohio; the ⁴National University of Singapore, Singapore; the ⁵Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; the ⁶Doheny Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; and the ⁷Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore.

PURPOSE. To evaluate the reproducibility of anterior chamber (AC) angle measurements obtained using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).

METHODS. Patients with suspected glaucoma and those with glaucoma, ocular hypertension, or anatomically narrow angles were recruited from the glaucoma service at the National University Hospital, Singapore. All subjects underwent imaging of the nasal, temporal, and inferior AC angles with an AS-OCT prototype under standardized dark and light conditions. For short-term reproducibility analysis, a single observer acquired two sets of images followed by a third set of images acquired by a second observer. The interval between sessions was 10 minutes. For long-term reproducibility analysis, a single observer acquired two sets of images at least 24 hours apart. Images were measured using custom software to determine the AC depth (ACD), angle opening distance at 500 µm (AOD₅₀₀), angle recess area at 500 µm (ARA₅₀₀), and trabecular–iris space area at 500 µm (TISA₅₀₀). The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated as a measure of intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility.

RESULTS. Twenty eyes of 20 patients were analyzed for short-term reproducibility, and 23 eyes of 23 patients were analyzed for long-term reproducibility. AC depth measurement demonstrated excellent reproducibility (ICC 0.93–1.00) in both dark and light conditions. For the nasal and temporal quadrants, all AC angle parameters demonstrated good to excellent short-term (ICC 0.67–0.90) and long-term (ICC 0.56–0.93) reproducibility in both dark and light conditions. In the inferior quadrant, reproducibility was lower in all categories of analysis and varied from poor to good (ICC 0.31–0.73).

CONCLUSIONS. AS-OCT allows quantitative assessment of the AC angle. The reproducibility of AC angle measurements was good to excellent for the nasal and temporal quadrants. The lower reproducibility of measurements in the inferior quadrant may be unique to this prototype due to difficulty in acquiring high-quality images of the inferior angle. Further assessment of the commercially available AS-OCT is needed to clarify this finding.

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