Wavefront sensorless adaptive optics optical coherence tomography for multiphoton retinal imaging (Conference Presentation)

Daniel J. Wahl; Michelle Cua; Sujin Lee; Stefano Bonora; Robert J. Zawadzki; Yifan Jian; Marinko V. Sarunic

doi:10.1117/12.2250218

19 April 2017 Wavefront sensorless adaptive optics optical coherence tomography for multiphoton retinal imaging (Conference Presentation)

Daniel J. Wahl, Michelle Cua, Sujin Lee, Stefano Bonora, Robert J. Zawadzki, Yifan Jian, Marinko V. Sarunic

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Proceedings Volume 10053, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXI; 1005302 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250218
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) for in-vivo retinal imaging is an emerging tool for vision science. TPEF has multiple benefits in comparison to conventional confocal fluorescence scanning laser ophthalmoscopy for retinal imaging, including better axial resolution and the ability to use infrared excitation light for imaging the highly photosensitive tissue in the retina. TPEF is very sensitive to the focused spot size, which is enlarged by aberrations induced by the refractive elements of the mouse eye when imaging with a large numerical aperture. Our system begins with a femtosecond pulsed laser for two-photon excitation, which is also sufficiently spectrally broadband to allow for an optical coherence tomography (OCT) sub-system to guide aberration correction. The OCT system operated at 1 volumes/second with our custom GPU accelerated real-time processing. Our lens-based optical design features two deformable elements, one with large stroke for focus control on the retina and the other with multiple actuators for aberration correction. Our wavefront-sensorless adaptive optics (SAO) is driven by a modal search with a sharpness quality metric on the en-face OCT image of the selected retinal layer. After optimization, the speed was increased to 10 fps for TPEF imaging to allow for streaming and averaging ~200 frames per image. To demonstrate the system capabilities, we performed in-vivo retinal fluorescein angiography using TPEF. Our results demonstrate depth-resolved aberration correction with the SAO-OCT to increase the TPEF signal intensity. We also present TPEF at multiple vascular layers in the mouse retina alongside the volumetric OCT to localize the vessels.

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Daniel J. Wahl, Michelle Cua, Sujin Lee, Stefano Bonora, Robert J. Zawadzki, Yifan Jian, and Marinko V. Sarunic "Wavefront sensorless adaptive optics optical coherence tomography for multiphoton retinal imaging (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10053, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXI, 1005302 (19 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250218

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Optical coherence tomography

Retinal scanning

Aberration correction

Retina

Adaptive optics optical coherence tomography

Image quality

In vivo imaging

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