Wide-field whole eye OCT system with demonstration of quantitative retinal curvature estimation.

Current conventional clinical OCT systems image either only the anterior or the posterior eye during a single acquisition. This localized imaging limits conventional OCT's use for characterizing global ocular morphometry and biometry, which requires knowledge of spatial relationships across the entire eye. We developed a "whole eye" optical coherence tomography system that simultaneously acquires volumes with a wide field-of-view for both the anterior chamber (14 x 14 mm) and retina (55 degrees) using a single source and detector. This system was used to measure retinal curvature in a pilot population and compared against curvature of the same eyes measured with magnetic resonance imaging. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement