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Br J Ophthalmol 2007;91:119-120 doi:10.1136/bjo.2006.098871
  • Letter

High-speed, ultra-high-resolution optical coherence tomography of acute macular neuroretinopathy

  1. B K Monson1,
  2. P B Greenberg2,
  3. E Greenberg3,
  4. J G Fujimoto4,
  5. V J Srinivasan5,
  6. J S Duker6
  1. 1New England Eye Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  2. 2Division of Ophthalmology, Brown Medical School/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhodes Island, USA
  3. 3New England Eye Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  4. 4Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  5. 5Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  6. 6New England Eye Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston, USA
  1. Correspondence to: B K Monson New England Eye Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, 260 Tremont Street Biewend Building, 9–11th Floor, Boston, MA 02111, USA;brayan.monson{at}tufts.edu
  • Accepted 10 June 2006

Acute macular neuroretinopathy (AMN) is a rare, macular disorder of unknown aetiology. Patients with AMN are typically young women who present with paracentral scotomata in one or both eyes corresponding to red wedge-shaped parafoveal lesions. The retinal location of the lesion in patients with AMN is not clear. High-speed, ultra-high-resolution optical coherence tomography (hsUHR-OCT) is an investigational research prototype instrument capable of producing cross-sectional images of the retina; it supports an axial resolution of about 3.5 μm compared with about 10 μm in Stratus OCT (Dublin, California, USA)1 which enables enhanced imaging of intraretinal morphology including photoreceptor inner segments, outer segments and the external limiting membrane.2 We report a patient with AMN who underwent imaging with hsUHR-OCT suggesting …

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