Adaptive Optics In Medical Research Imaging

Medical research of disease progression often relies upon mouse models, which involves sacrificing animals at different stages of the disease to be able to study effects over time. This requires statistical studies of disease with large numbers of animals and only provides periodic snapshots of the disease. In vivo retinal imaging, by contrast, is a powerful tool that allows one to follow a single animal over time, but aberrations in the mouse eye limit the best possible resolution that can be obtained.

Adaptive optics has been successful in correcting phase aberrations introduced by the atmosphere in astronomical imaging. This technique recently has been extended to ophthalmic imaging in humans. In this talk I will briefly discuss the motivation for in vivo imaging and I will present the current technique our lab uses for imaging the mouse retina. Finally, I will explain difficulties that arise when applying adaptive optics to mouse retinal imaging and how we implement adaptive optics into our imaging system.

David Biss

David Biss received his Ph.D. in optics from the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics in 2005. His thesis, "Focal Field Interactions from Cylindrical Vector Beams," dealt with the interaction of small particles and edges with focused inhomogeneously polarized beams. After graduation David left Rochester, NY and moved to Boston to pursue a position as a post-doctoral researcher at the Schepens Eye Research Institute. He is currently working with the Advanced Microscopy Program at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, to develop an adaptive optics system for in vivo imaging of the mouse retina.

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