INVESTIGADORES
ISSOLIO Luis Alberto
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Validation of a haploscopic brightness comparison method by C-quant and OQAS systems
Autor/es:
PABLO BARRIONUEVO; ELISA COLOMBO; MERITXELL VILASECA; JAUME PUJOL; LUIS ISSOLIO
Lugar:
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Reunión:
Congreso; ARVO 2009; 2009
Institución organizadora:
ARVO
Resumen:
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Purpose:The aim of this work is to evaluate
the performance of a Haploscopic Brightness Comparison (HBC) method,
quantifying cataract degree (A new system to measure intraocular
scattering based on brightness, Barrionuevo et al., ARVO, 2007).
In order to validate the HBC, two commercial systems were used: the
OQAS (Visiometrics, Spain) that determines the Objective Scatter
Index (OSI), and the C-Quant (Oculus, Germany) that determines the
stray-light parameter (log S). We analyse the obtained data from HBC
in reference to the OSI and log S scales.
Methods:HBC system gives a GI parameter,
which is computed as the relation Lr'/Lm-1, where Lr' and Lm are the
haploscopic matching luminance without and with glare respectively. The
OSI parameter is obtained from the relative intensity of fan
external area of the PSF double-pass image. The log S is obtained in
base on a psychophysics compensation comparison method. We measure
the performance of the systems with three different groups of young
subject with normal vision, 10 with OQAS (20 eyes), 10 with C-Quant
(20 eyes) and 7 with HBC (7 eyes). To do a uniform comparison among
the three systems we simulate cataracts placing scattering filtersin front of the eye. In the case of HBC we perform two measurements,the former placing the filter on the glaring eye and the second placing
filters on both eyes. The filters used were Tiffen BPM1 and BPM2
-simulating early cataracts- and Rosco Cinegel 3020 -simulating a
mature cataract producing a VA reduction of 50% and CS reduction of
75%-. A control experiment was made without any filter.
Results:In spite of the three system use
different parameters to quantified the scattered light we
approximately obtain a 2 to 1 relation between GI and OSI values and
a 4 to 1 relation when the values of GI are compared with the values
of log S. In the case of simulation of binocular cataracts these
relations diminish close to the half.
Conclusions:In relation to the involved scales
the HBC method showed a consistent behavior with respect to the OQAS
and C-Quant evaluating a same set of grading scatter filters. According
with the actual results, the comparisons with the OQAS and C-Quant
should be appropriate to assess the ability of the HBC to
discriminate different cataract degrees in patients.