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In this work, we imaged the retina of healthy age-matched female and male subjects with optical coherence tomography to assess the existence of localised sex-related differences in the retina. Texture analysis revealed statistically significant differences spread over the different layers of the neuroretina, particularly at the ganglion cell, inner plexiform and inner nuclear layers, and also spread in the macula. These results suggest that sexual dimorphism is expressed in the retina at the microstructural level.
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This study was supported by The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (PEst-UID/NEU/04539/2019), by FEDER-COMPETE (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007440 and POCI01-0145-FEDER-016428), and by Centro 2020 FEDER-COMPETE (BIGDATIMAGE, CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000016).
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Nunes, A., Serranho, P., Quental, H., Ambrósio, A.F., Castelo-Branco, M., Bernardes, R. (2020). Sexual Dimorphism of the Adult Human Retina Assessed by Optical Coherence Tomography. In: Henriques, J., Neves, N., de Carvalho, P. (eds) XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019. MEDICON 2019. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 76. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31635-8_222
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