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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ophthalmol. 2009 Jul 9;148(4):597–605. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2009.05.030

Table 3.

Areas under the receiver operator characteristic (AUROC) curves using retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness values and normative databases obtained using time-domain and Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Using RNFL Thickness Using Normative Database
TD-OCT
AUROC±SE
(95% CI)
FD-OCT
AUROC±SE
(95% CI)
p TD-OCT
AUROC±SE
(95% CI)
FD-OCT
AUROC±SE
(95% CI)
p
Average RNFL (µm) ± SE 0.87±0.04
(0.82–0.96)
0.88±0.04
(0.81–0.95)
0.73 0.86 ± 0.04
(0.78–0.94)
0.96 ± 0.02
(0.91–1.0)
0.84
Superior RNFL (µm) ± SE 0.79±0.05
(0.69–0.88)
0.80±0.05
(0.71–0.89)
0.59 0.75 ± 0.05
(0.66–0.85)
0.80 ± 0.05
(0.71–0.89)
0.44
Inferior RNFL (µm) ± SE 0.95±0.02
(0.91–1.00)
0.94±0.03
(0.89–1.00)
0.45 0.90 ± 0.04
(0.83–0.97)
0.93 ± 0.03
(0.87–0.99)
0.35
Nasal RNFL (µm) ± SE 0.76±0.05
(0.66–0.85)
0.74±0.05
(0.64–0.84)
0.63 0.62 ± 0.06
(0.51–0.73)
0.73 ± 0.05
(0.63–0.83)
0.04
Temporal RNFL (µm) ±SE 0.68±0.05
(0.58–0.79)
0.69±0.05
(0.58–0.79)
0.95 0.65 ± 0.06
(0.54–0.76)
0.76 ± 0.05
(0.67–0.86)
0.08

TD-OCT = Time-domain optical coherence tomography, FD-OCT = Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography, AUROC = area under the receiver operator characteristic curve; RNFL = retinal nerve fiber layer; SE = standard error