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Retinal Imaging With Oblique Illumination

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Retinal Disease
Interventions
Device: Cellularis version 1 imaging
Registration Number
NCT04398394
Lead Sponsor
Moser Christophe
Brief Summary

Retinal diseases are the major cause of blindness in industrialized countries and while tremendous effort is made to develop novel therapeutic strategies to rescue retinal cells, optimal means to evaluate the effects of such treatments is still missing. Nowadays, diseases diagnosis and treatment monitoring are performed thanks to imaging devices and functional measurements (visual acuity of visual field tests). These eye examinations lead to the detection of large scale damages of the retinal tissue, i.e. the diagnosis is made too late or the treatments cannot be adapted in time. With the developed technology, the goal is to provide a tool to the ophthalmologists that allow for better treatment monitoring and early diagnosis. Indeed, the technology is able to image the retinal tissues with a ten times more detailed visualization as compared to the standard of care (OCT instruments, SLO instruments or eye fundus cameras). Towards this goal, we designed the present protocol in order to test the technology with a clinical prototype (Cellularis version 1) in a clinical environment. The objective is to describe and quantify at the cellular level the retina of patient affected by different retinal diseases as well as the healthy retina of people with different ages. We will assess the repeatability of the instrument and compare the results of the measurements with images obtained with the standard of care (OCT and SLO images).

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
102
Inclusion Criteria

Group 1

  • Individuals, 18 to 50 yo, with normal eye fundus.
  • Emmetropic or ametropic between +3D and -3D

Group 2

  • Individuals, 18 to 50 yo, with normal eye fundus.
  • Myopic between -6D and -12D.

Group 3

  • Individuals over the age of 50 and age-matched to patients with AMD.
  • With nwith normal eye fundus.
  • Astigmatic, myopic (<-12D) or presbyopic participants may be included

Group 4

  • Patient over 50 yo, with early or intermediate AMD, including extrafoveolar geographic atrophy
  • with visual acuity ≥ 0.6 and clinical judgment of good central fixation.

Group 5

  • Patient over 18, with other retinopathy than AMD,
  • with visual acuity ≥ 0.6 and nd clinical judgment of good fixation
Exclusion Criteria

Eye with

  • RPE detachment
  • a clinically unclear situation
  • abnormality preventing good visualization of the fundus
  • less than 3 months post-surgery of the anterior segment
  • less than 6 months post-surgery of the posterior segment
  • active uveitis - myopia ≥12D, hyperopia > +5D, astigmatism > 4D
  • contraindication to dilatation
  • a palpebral opening that is less than 6 mm in height

Individual:

  • albino - unable to fix a target at least 10 seconds
  • who does not tolerate being in the dark for 30 minutes
  • unable to follow the procedures of the study
  • refusing to be informed of the incidental discovery of a clinically significant pathology Investigators of the study, their family members, collaborators and students

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Group 5Cellularis version 1 imagingPatients with other retinopathies than AMD, over the age of 18.
Group 1Cellularis version 1 imagingIndividuals with healthy retina, 18 to 50 years old.
Group 2Cellularis version 1 imagingIndividuals with healthy retina and presenting with myopia, 18 to 50 years old.
Group 4Cellularis version 1 imagingPatients with early and intermediate AMD, over the age of 50.
Group 3Cellularis version 1 imagingIndividuals with healthy retina, over the age of 50.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number RPE [#/mm2]2 months

The primary outcome is the RPE cells density map of the imaged regions (in #/mm2).

Qualitative analysis [unitless]2 months

Together with the quantitative outcomes of the density, a detailed qualitative analysis will also be performed.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
averaged RPE cell area [um2]2 months

- The RPE cell area.

Averaged number of neighbors of RPE cells [unitless]2 months

Averaged number of neighbors of RPE cells

Averaged RPE pigmentation parameter [unitless]2 months

RPE pigmentation parameter at cellular level

Averaged RPE spacing [um]2 months

The averaged RPE spacing in um.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Jules Gonin eye hospital

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Lausanne, Switzerland

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