Clinical Applications of Retinal Imaging with Adaptive Optics

Abstract

The first images of the living human retina were published in 1886. In the 125 years since then, clinicians and researchers alike have relied on the continued development of new and improved ways to visualize the fundus to provide better in vivo views of the normal and diseased retina. Adaptive optics-based technologies offer non-invasive, cellular resolution views of the living retina, and bring with them several exciting clinical applications. Here we review some of these applications, with an emphasis on photoreceptor imaging.