Combining ganglion cell topology and data of patients with glaucoma to determine a structure-function map

Abstract

PURPOSE. To introduce techniques for deriving a map that relates visual field locations to optic nerve head (ONH) sectors and to use the techniques to derive a map relating Medmont perimetric data to data from the Heidelberg Retinal Tomograph. METHODS. Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated relating each visual field location (Medmont M700) to rim area and volume measures for 10° ONH sectors (HRT III software) for 57 participants: 34 with glaucoma, 18 with suspected glaucoma, and 5 with ocular hypertension. Correlations were constrained to be anatomically plausible with a computational model of the axon growth of retinal ganglion cells (Algorithm GROW). GROW generated a map relati..