Image-guided intraocular injection using multimodality optical coherence tomography and fluorescence confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy in rodent ophthalmological models

Benjamin D. Terrones; Oscar R. Benavides; Kelsey C. Leeburg; Sankarathi B. Mehanathan; Edward M. Levine; Yuankai K. Tao

doi:10.1117/12.2290651

19 February 2018 Image-guided intraocular injection using multimodality optical coherence tomography and fluorescence confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy in rodent ophthalmological models

Benjamin D. Terrones, Oscar R. Benavides, Kelsey C. Leeburg, Sankarathi B. Mehanathan, Edward M. Levine, Yuankai K. Tao

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Proceedings Volume 10486, Design and Quality for Biomedical Technologies XI; 104860P (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290651
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

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Intraocular injections are routinely performed for delivery of anti-VEGF and anti-inflammatory therapies in humans. While these injections are also performed in mice to develop novel models of ophthalmic diseases and screen novel therapeutics, the injection location and volume are not well-controlled and reproducible. We overcome limitations of conventional injections methods by developing a multimodality, long working distance, non-contact optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fluorescence confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (cSLO) system for retinal imaging before and after injections. Our OCT+cSLO system combines a custom-built spectraldomain OCT engine (875±85 nm) with 125 kHz line-rate with a modified commercial cSLO with a maximum frame-rate of 30 fps (512 x 512 pix.). The system was designed for an overlapping OCT+cSLO field-of-view of 1.1 mm with a 7.76 mm working distance to the pupil. cSLO excitation light sources and filters were optimized for simultaneous GFP and tdTomato imaging. Lateral resolution was 3.02 µm for OCT and 2.74 μm for cSLO. Intravitreal injections of 5%, 10%, and 20% intralipid with Alex Fluor 488 were manually injected intraocularly in C57BL/6 mice. Post-injection imaging showed structural changes associated with retinal puncture, including the injection track, a retinal elevation, and detachment of the posterior hyaloid. OCT enables quantitative analysis of injection location and volumes whereas complementary cSLO improves specificity for identifying fluorescently labeled injected compounds and transgenic cells. The long working distance of our non-contact OCT+cSLO system is uniquely-suited for concurrent imaging with intraocular injections and may be applied for imaging of ophthalmic surgical dynamics and real-time image-guided injections.

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Benjamin D. Terrones, Oscar R. Benavides, Kelsey C. Leeburg, Sankarathi B. Mehanathan, Edward M. Levine, and Yuankai K. Tao "Image-guided intraocular injection using multimodality optical coherence tomography and fluorescence confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy in rodent ophthalmological models", Proc. SPIE 10486, Design and Quality for Biomedical Technologies XI, 104860P (19 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290651

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