Artifact Awareness in Glaucoma

Optical coherence tomography and visual field testing are indispensable tools for assessing structural and functional damage in glaucoma patients. But as powerful as these devices are, they aren’t infallible In this article, Dr. Joel Schuman, co-director of the Wills Eye Glaucoma Service, review scommon OCT and visual field artifacts, how they affect interpretation and share practical pearls for separating true progression from testing noise. “Signal strength, sometimes called the quality score or Q-score, is the only marker we have for assessing OCT image quality,” says Joel Schuman, MD, of Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. “Each device manufacturer has a different value, so it’s important to know what those numbers are.”

View the article in Review of Ophthalmology.