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Adaptive Optics: Assessing Vision, Disease and Treatment
Recent research in using adaptive optics techniques for the human eye enables new scientific insights and clinical applications.
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Adaptive optics (AO) is a methodology that augments any imaging technique degraded by optical aberrations. First invented and demonstrated in the 1950s to correct distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence in ground-based telescopes, AO has now been used for more than 25 years to achieve cellular- and subcellular-scale visualization of targets for applications in the biological sciences.
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