Impact of mydriasis in fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy

• Published in: PloS one 2018-12, Vol.13 (12), p.e0209194-e0209194
• Main Authors: Sadda, SriniVas R, Borrelli, Enrico, Fan, Wenying, Ebraheem, Adel, Marion, Kenneth M, Kwon, Soonil
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adult; Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimers disease; Biology and Life Sciences; Channels; Chemical compounds; Coefficient of variation; Correlation coefficient; Correlation coefficients; Diabetes; Diabetic retinopathy; Diagnosis; Dilation; Eye; Eye (anatomy); Female; Fluorescence; Fluorophores; Fovea; Humans; Image acquisition; In vivo methods and tests; Lifetime; Light sources; Macular degeneration; Male; Mathematical analysis; Medical imaging; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mydriasis; Ophthalmoscopes; Ophthalmoscopy - methods; Optical Imaging - methods; Physical Sciences; Prospective Studies; Pupil; Reproducibility; Reproducibility of Results; Research and Analysis Methods; Retina; Retina - diagnostic imaging; Retinal diseases; Time Factors; Wavelengths
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209194

Fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy (FLIO) is a novel technique that measures in vivo autofluorescence intensity decay over time of endogenous fluorophores in the retina. The Heidelberg Engineering FLIO system was used to obtain two 30 degree scans centered on the fovea of both eyes. The FLIO system uses a 473nm blue scanning laser light source and the emitted fluorescence is detected in two wavelengths channels, short and long spectral channels (SSC, LSC). Since the mydriatic status influence the FLIO result, the impact of mydriasis on FLIO need to be clarified. In this prospective, observational study, the impact of mydriasis on measurements from fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscope (FLIO) images in normal subjects were evaluated. 12 healthy participants (24 eyes) were volunteered and all subjects were scanned twice and the mean fluorescence lifetime (τm) values were computed with dilation and without dilation on different days. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) and coefficients of variation (CV) were calculated from the measured τm in dilated, nondilated and between the dilated and non-dilated setting. Test duration was also compared and correlated with lifetimes in both settings. Repeatability was excellent for both the dilation and non-dilation settings (ICC; 0.967-0.996; 0.926-0.986, respectively). The agreement between the dilation and non-dilation settings, however, were lower (ICC; 0.688-0.970). The τm in the non-dilation setting was significantly longer than in the dilation setting for the SSC (P