Clinical applications of choroidal imaging technologies

Abstract

Choroid supplies the major blood supply to the eye, especially the outer retinal structures. Its understanding has significantly improved with the advent of advanced imaging modalities such as enhanced depth imaging technique and the newer swept source optical coherence tomography. Recent literature reports the findings of choroidal changes, quantitative as well as qualitative, in various chorioretinal disorders. This review article describes applications of choroidal imaging in the management of common diseases such as age-related macular degeneration, high myopia, central serous chorioretinopathy, chorioretinal inflammatory diseases, and tumors. This article briefly discusses future directions in choroidal imaging including angiography.

Keywords

• Community
• digital imaging
• Karnataka Internet-assisted Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity
• retinopathy of prematurity
• telemedicine
• universal screening
• Age-related macular degeneration
• en-face optical coherence tomography
• polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy
• Choroid
• enhanced depth imaging technique
• swept source optical coherence tomography