The article Spectral-Domain OCT Findings of Retinal Vascular–Avascular Junction in Infants with Retinopathy of Prematurity, published September 2018 with Duke Ophthalmology faculty lead author Xi Chen, MD, corresponding author, Cynthia Toth, MD along with Sharon Freeman, MD, and members of the Duke Advanced Research in Spectral Domain OCT Imaging (DARSI) Laboratory is one of the most cited articles in Ophthalmology Retina, the official retina journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).
The study found that
Duke is a leader in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) research and development, which has previously been only used on adult patients and older children. REtinopathy of Prematurty is a Over the last few years Toth and her team have been investigating ways to use the non-invasive imaging in premature infants to find more detailed information about brain-eye connectin in devleopment
Ophthalmology Retina is the American Academy of Ophthalmology's first new peer-reviewed journal in over 100 years. The Journal prioritizes papers that educate clinicians on how to make better diagnoses, select preferred treatments, and follow best “practice patterns” with the goal of delivering the best outcomes for patients. Ophthalmology Retina papers report the same top quality work published in Ophthalmology, but topics are more specialized and target retina-focused readers.