Influence of ocular chromatic aberration and pupil size on transverse resolution in ophthalmic adaptive optics optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 8184-8197

  Fernández, Enrique J ^a,b   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS (AO); OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); TRANSVERSE RESOLUTION;

ABERRATIONS;

EID: 30144434567     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008184     Document Type: Article

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