Combining adaptive optics with optical coherence tomography: Unveiling the cellular structure of the human retina in vivo

Expert Review of Ophthalmology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1019-1035

  Pircher, Michael ^a   Zawadzki, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive optics; imaging systems; medical optics instrumentation; optical coherence tomography; retinal imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991004208     PISSN: 17469899     EISSN: 17469902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17469899.2.6.1019     Document Type: Article

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