Table 1 Proportion of birefringence-derived artifacts in OCT B-scan images of the sclera.

From: Birefringence-derived scleral artifacts in optical coherence tomography images of eyes with pathologic myopia

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Polarization-dependent OCT

Commercial OCT

Proportion of artifacts per eye (total 76 eyes)

Scleral vessel artifact

46 eyes (60.5%)

17 eyes (22.4%)

Low-intensity band artifact

22 eyes (28.9%)

0 eyes (0.0%)

Proportion of artifacts per B-scan image (total 380 B-scan images)

Scleral vessel artifact

166 images (43.7%)

63 images (16.6%)

Low-intensity band artifact

63 images (16.6%)

0 images (0.0%)

  1. OCT, optical coherence tomography.