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ReviewBiomedical optics express2017

Review of adaptive optics OCT (AO-OCT): principles and applications for retinal imaging [Invited].

Michael Pircher, Robert J Zawadzki

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Review in Biomedical optics express, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

113 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Brain and retina in Alzheimer's disease: Pathological intersections and estimates from imaging.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  15. How early can we detect diabetic retinopathy? A narrative review of imaging tools for structural assessment of the retina.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2025
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  19. Optical Imaging of Cilia in the Head and Neck.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michael PircherMedical University of Vienna, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Währinger Gürtel 18-20/4L, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Robert J ZawadzkiUC Davis RISE Eye-Pod Laboratory, Dept. of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California Davis, 4320 Tupper Hall, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

Funding

VISION RESEARCH CORE GRANTP30EY012576 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI LISA M OAKES · 1999 to 2026
$18.9M
Theranostics of Photoreceptor-RPE-Choroid Neurovascular Unit in Mouse Models of Eye DiseasesR01EY026556 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI Robert J Zawadzki · 2017 to 2026
$4.1M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY012576NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026556
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In vivo imaging of the human retina with a resolution that allows visualization of cellular structures has proven to be essential to broaden our knowledge about the physiology of this precious and very complex neural tissue that enables the first steps in vision. Many pathologic changes originate from functional and structural alterations on a cellular scale, long before any degradation in vision can be noted. Therefore, it is important to investigate these tissues with a sufficient level of detail in order to better understand associated disease development or the effects of therapeutic intervention. Optical retinal imaging modalities rely on the optical elements of the eye itself (mainly the cornea and lens) to produce retinal images and are therefore affected by the specific arrangement of these elements and possible imperfections in curvature. Thus, aberrations are introduced to the imaging light and image quality is degraded. To compensate for these aberrations, adaptive optics (AO), a technology initially developed in astronomy, has been utilized. However, the axial sectioning provided by retinal AO-based fundus cameras and scanning laser ophthalmoscope instruments is limited to tens of micrometers because of the rather small available numerical aperture of the eye. To overcome this limitation and thus achieve much higher axial sectioning in the order of 2-5µm, AO has been combined with optical coherence tomography (OCT) into AO-OCT. This enabled for the first time in vivo volumetric retinal imaging with high isotropic resolution. This article summarizes the technical aspects of AO-OCT and provides an overview on its various implementations and some of its clinical applications. In addition, latest developments in the field, such as computational AO-OCT and wavefront sensor less AO-OCT, are covered.

Indexed as

(010.1080) Active or adaptive optics(110.1758) Computational imaging(170.2655) Functional monitoring and imaging(170.4460) Ophthalmic optics and devices(170.4500) Optical coherence tomography(170.5755) Retina scanning(330.5310) Vision - photoreceptors

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PMID28663890
PMCPMC5480497

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