Adaptive optics SLO/OCT for 3D imaging of human photoreceptors in vivo

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 439-456

  Felberer, Franz ^a   Kroisamer, Julia Sophie ^a,b   Baumann, Bernhard ^a   Zotter, Stefan ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^b   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a   Pircher, Michael ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTS; PIXELS; VISION;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; EYE TRACKERS; HIGH-LATERAL RESOLUTION; IN-VIVO IMAGES; POST PROCESSING; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; THREE DIMENSIONS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERFEROMETER; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PUPIL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA ROD; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84893527305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.000439     Document Type: Article

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