June 2017
Volume 58, Issue 8
Open Access
ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   June 2017
A 3D MRI study of the relationship between eye dimensions, retinal shape and myopia
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • David A. Atchison
    Institute of Health and Biomedical Innov, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
  • James M. Pope
    Institute of Health and Biomedical Innov, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
  • Pavan Verkicharla
    Institute of Health and Biomedical Innov, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
  • Farshid Sepehrband
    Institute of Health and Biomedical Innov, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
  • Marwan Suheimat
    Institute of Health and Biomedical Innov, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
  • Katrina L Schmid
    Institute of Health and Biomedical Innov, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia
  • Noel A Brennan
    Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, In., Jacksonville, Florida, United States
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships   David Atchison, None; James M. Pope, None; Pavan Verkicharla, None; Farshid Sepehrband, None; Marwan Suheimat, None; Katrina Schmid, None; Noel Brennan, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. (E)
  • Footnotes
    Support  Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2017, Vol.58, 4429. doi:
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      David A. Atchison, James M. Pope, Pavan Verkicharla, Farshid Sepehrband, Marwan Suheimat, Katrina L Schmid, Noel A Brennan; A 3D MRI study of the relationship between eye dimensions, retinal shape and myopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2017;58(8):4429.

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Abstract

Purpose : To investigate changes in overall eye dimensions and in retinal shape with degree of myopia, gender and race.

Methods : There were 58 young adult emmetropes and myopes (range –1.25D to −8.25D), with 30 East-Asians (21 female/9 male), 23 Caucasians (16/7) and 5 South-Asians (1/4). Three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging was undertaken with a 3.0 Tesla whole-body clinical MRI system using a 4.0 cm receive-only surface coil positioned over the eye. Automated methods determined eye length, width and height, and curve fitting procedures determined asymmetric and symmetric ellipsoid shapes to 75%, 55% and 35% of the retina. Analyses to investigate influence of race and gender were performed with East-Asians and Caucasians.

Results :
With myopia increase, eye dimensions increased in all directions such that increase in length was considerably greater than increases in width and height. Emmetropic retinas were oblate (steepening away from the vertex) but oblateness decreased with increase in myopia, so that retinas were approximately spherical at 7 to 8D myopia. Asymmetry of eyes about the best fit visual axis was generally small, with small differences between the vertex radii of curvature and between asphericities in the axial and sagittal planes. Females had smaller eyes than males, with overall dimensions being about 0.5mm less for the former. Race appeared not to have a systematic effect.

Conclusions : The study confirmed an earlier MRI study, except that meridional differences were smaller. Eyes became less oblate with increasing myopia. Differences between males and females eyes were restricted to overall dimensions rather than shape.

This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017.

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