Use of a combined slit-lamp SD-OCT to obtain anterior and posterior segment images in selected animal species.

Objective: To obtain images of anterior and posterior segments of the eye using a slit-lamp (SL)/spectral domain (SD) optical coherence tomography (OCT) integrated system designed for the human eye, in the cat, dog, minipig and monkey.

Animals Studied: One healthy adult monkey, one healthy adult minipig, one healthy adult dog, one healthy adult cat, and three cats and four dogs affected by corneal or retinal diseases.

Procedure: A SL SCAN-1 SD-OCT, which is a slit-lamp SL-D7 that contains an integrated OCT module and a fundus viewer, was used to generate OCT images (512-2048), while simultaneously taking 'en-face' slit-lamp images (efSL).