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TRANSLATIONAL VISION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1167/tvst.7.2.17
Keywords
adaptive optics; retinal imaging; confocal; ophthalmoscopy
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- Glaucoma Research Foundation Catalyst for a Cure Initiative
- Research to Prevent Blindness Departmental Award (Stanford)
- National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [U01 EY025477, R01 EY025231]
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Purpose: To demonstrate the viability of improving transverse image resolution in reflectance scanning adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy using sub-Airy disk confocal detection. Methods: The foveal cone mosaic was imaged in five human subjects free of known eye disease using two custom adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopes (AOSLOs) in reflectance with 7.75 and 4.30 mm pupil diameters. Confocal pinholes of 0.5, 0.6, 0.8, and 1.0 Airy disk diameters (ADDs) were used in a retinal conjugate plane before the light detector. Average cone photoreceptor intensity profile width and power spectrum were calculated for the resulting images. Detected energy using a model eye was recorded for each pinhole size. Results: The cone photoreceptor mosaic is better resolved with decreasing confocal pinhole size, with the high spatial frequency content of the images enhanced in both the large-and small-pupil AOSLOs. The average cone intensity profile width was reduced by similar to 15% with the use of a 0.5 ADD pinhole when compared to a 1.0 ADD, with an accompanying reduction in signal greater than a factor of four. Conclusions: The use of sub-Airy disk confocal pinhole detection without increasing retinal light exposure results in a substantial improvement in image resolution at the cost of larger than predicted signal reduction.
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