Adaptive optics retinal scanner for one-micrometer light source

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1406-1418

  Kurokawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Tamada, Daiki ^a   Makita, Shuichi ^a   Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ERROR CORRECTION; LIGHT SOURCES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

A-CENTER; HIGH-LATERAL RESOLUTION; IMAGE CONTRASTS; OCULAR ABERRATIONS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL IMAGE; RMS WAVEFRONT ERROR;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINOSCOPE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINOSCOPES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 75249083041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001406     Document Type: Article

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