In vivo investigation of human cone photoreceptors with SLO/OCT in combination with 3D motion correction on a cellular level

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13935-13944

  Pircher, Michael ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Sattmann, Harald ^a   Leitgeb, Rainer A ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISION;

3D MOTION; A-FRAMES; CELLULAR LEVELS; CELLULAR RESOLUTION; CONE PHOTORECEPTORS; CORRECTION ACCURACY; DYNAMIC FOCUSING; EYE-TRACKING; FIELD OF VIEWS; HUMAN RETINA; IMAGING DEPTH; IN-VIVO; MOTION ARTIFACT; POST PROCESSING; RAPID SCANNING OPTICAL DELAY LINES; SOFTWARE-BASED; SPEED-TRACKING; SUB-CELLULAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE MOVEMENTS; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953846442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013935     Document Type: Article

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