Macular thickness, as measured by OCT, is one of the key outcome measures used in most clinical trials, especially those on diabetic macular edema and AMD. Because Stratus TD-OCT was the most common commercially available OCT instrument in the past decade, most trials are designed based on Stratus OCT.
A percentile (or a centile) is a measure used in statistics indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall. For example, the 20th percentile is the value (or score) below which 20% of the observations may be found. The term percentile and the related term percentile rank are often used in the reporting of scores from norm-referenced tests.
In mathematics, a percentage is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign, %, or the abbreviations pct., pct; sometimes the abbreviation pc is also used. A percentage is a dimensionless number (pure number). For example, 45% (read as forty-five percent) is equal to 45â100, or 0.45.