Consejo, Alejandra, Jimenez-Garcia, Marta, Rozema, Jos J and Abass, Ahmed ORCID: 0000-0002-8622-4632
(2022)
Influence of eye tilt on corneal densitometry.
OPHTHALMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS, 42 (5).
pp. 1032-1037.
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Abstract
<h4>Purpose</h4>To investigate whether Pentacam densitometry readings are affected by corneal tilt.<h4>Methods</h4>In a prospective study, the right eyes of 86 healthy participants aged 42.8 ± 20.0 years (range 18-79 years) were imaged using Scheimpflug tomography. Elevation maps were exported to calculate corneal tilt using custom-made software, and densitometry readings were acquired directly from the corneal densitometry analysis add-on to the standard software Oculus Pentacam HR. Simple mediation analysis was applied to study age as a confounding factor in the correlation between corneal tilt and corneal densitometry.<h4>Results</h4>Corneal tilt and corneal densitometry are not independent from one another because age is significantly correlated with both corneal tilt (r = 0.50, p < 0.001) and corneal densitometry (r = 0.91, p < 0.001). Only 3.8% of the correlation between tilt and densitometry operates directly, while the remaining 96.2% depends on age.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Corneal tilt plays a role in corneal densitometry readings, even though the interaction is strongly influenced by age. Age is a well-known factor in densitometry readings that should be taken into consideration when interpreting Scheimpflug densitometry.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | cornea, corneal tilt, corneal transparency, densitometry, Pentacam |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 24 May 2022 10:47 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 21:01 |
DOI: | 10.1111/opo.13020 |
Open Access URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/opo.13... |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3155399 |