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ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2021

Virtually structured detection enables super-resolution ophthalmoscopy of rod and cone photoreceptors in human retina.

Yiming Lu, Taeyoon Son, Tae-Hoon Kim, David Le, Xincheng Yao

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Article in Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Biomedical optics express · 2025
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  3. Emerging imaging developments in experimental vision sciences and ophthalmology.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yiming LuDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Taeyoon SonDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Tae-Hoon KimDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
David LeDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Xincheng YaoDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
University of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

Translational Core for Therapeutic and Diagnostic DevelopmentP30EY001792 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI MCANANY, JAMES JASON · 1985 to 2025
$14.8M
Functional imaging of retinal photoreceptorsR01EY023522 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI YAO, XINCHENG · 2014 to 2024
$3.5M
Nonmydriatic ultra-widefield fundus photography employing trans-pars-planar illuminationR01EY029673 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI CHAN, ROBISON VERNON PAUL, YAO, XINCHENG · 2019 to 2022
$1.8M
Differential artery-vein analysis in OCT angiography for objective classification of diabetic retinopathyR01EY030842 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI LIM, JENNIFER IRENE, YAO, XINCHENG · 2020 to 2023
$1.7M
Functional tomography of neurovascular coupling interactions in healthy and diseased retinasR01EY030101 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI YAO, XINCHENG · 2019 to 2022
$1.4M
Super-resolution ophthalmoscopy for in vivo retinal imagingR01EY024628 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI YAO, XINCHENG · 2014 to 2016
$1.1M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY001792NEI NIH HHS R01 EY023522NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024628NEI NIH HHS R01 EY029673NEI NIH HHS R01 EY030101NEI NIH HHS R01 EY030842
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHigh resolution imaging is desirable for advanced study and clinical management of retinal diseases. However, spatial resolution of retinal imaging has been limited due to available numerical aperture and optical aberration of the ocular optics. This study is to develop and validate virtually structured detection (VSD) to surpass diffraction limit for resolution improvement in

methodsA rapid line scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) was constructed for

resultsThe VSD based super-resolution SLO significantly improved image quality compared with equivalent wide-field imaging.

conclusionsIn conjunction with rapid line-scan imaging and digital registration to minimize the effect of eye movements, VSD enabled resolution improvement to observe individual retinal photoreceptors without the involvement of adaptive optics (AO). An objective method has been developed to identify MTF to enable quantitative estimation of the cut-off frequency required for robust VSD processing.

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ophthalmologyOptical imagingphotoreceptorretinascanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO)super-resolution imaging

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PMID33654677
PMCPMC7829177
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