Multimodal high-resolution retinal imaging using a camera-based DMD-integrated adaptive optics flood-illumination ophthalmoscope

Opt Lett. 2023 Jul 15;48(14):3785-3788. doi: 10.1364/OL.495515.

Abstract

We demonstrate the feasibility of a multimodal adaptive optics flood-illumination ophthalmoscope, able to provide both bright-field and dark-field images (such as phase contrast). The multimodality was made possible by integrating a digital micromirror device (DMD) at the illumination path to project a sequence of complementary high-resolution patterns into the retina. Through a versatile post-processing method that digitally selects backscattered or multiply scattered photons, we were able: (1) to achieve up to four-fold contrast increase of bright-field images when imaging the photoreceptor mosaic and nerve fibers; and (2) to visualize translucent retinal features such as capillaries, red blood cells, vessel walls, ganglion cells, and photoreceptor inner segments through phase contrast.

MeSH terms

  • Floods
  • Lighting*
  • Ophthalmoscopes
  • Retina / diagnostic imaging
  • Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells* / physiology
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods