Workshop in Retinal AO-OCT Technology: Different Configurations and Their Applications

From basic vision research to clinical applications, the visual science and ophthalmology community has greatly benefited from the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) techniques. The integration of adaptive optics (AO) further pushes the spatial resolution and precision of OCT technology to an unprecedented level. Different AO-OCT configurations have their strengths and weaknesses and target applications. This workshop will aim to be at an introductory level (assuming little prior knowledge) and will go through some basic knowledge of specific types of AO-OCT configurations, i.e., unique features/considerations compared to other OCT modalities, tips on hardware and software integration, etc. Example imaging results and target applications will also be discussed. Rather than presenting recent research achievements, the workshop will be in a tutorial format targeted towards an audience interested in retinal AO-OCT instrumentation.

Subject Matter Level: Introductory - assumes little previous knowledge of the topic, but with some background in optical instrumentation

What You Will Learn:
• Different retinal AO-OCT system configurations and their unique features
• Important considerations towards the choice of AO-OCT design for a target application
• Tips on hardware and software integration for retinal AO-OCT instrumentation

Who Should Attend:
Graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, technical staff and faculty members who:
• are interested in the technical aspects of AO-OCT instrumentation
• would like to understand the differences between different AO-OCT configurations
• have experience with other retinal imaging systems and would like to understand the benefits of AO-OCT

About the Presenters: 

Yao Cai from Center for Human Ophthalmic Imaging Research, University of California at Davis

Dr. Yao Cai received her Ph.D. in biomedical imaging from Sorbonne University. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis, focusing on the development and clinical applications of AO-OCT-based Optoetinography (ORG) i.e. studies of light-evoked retinal function at the cellular level. She will be talking about Design and Implementation of adaptive optics swept source OCT (AO-SS-OCT) for in vivo phase-based probing of retinal function.

 

 

 

Michael Pircher from Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna

Prof. Michael Pircher is a professor at the Medical University of Vienna and has worked in the field of biomedical optics for 25 years. His research interests are optical coherence tomography methods, adaptive optics, polarization sensitive methods and retinal imaging. He will be talking about Adaptive optics optical coherence tomography using a pyramid wavefront sensor.

Vimal Pandiyan from University of Washington: 

Dr. Vimal Pandiyan is an acting instructor and research fellow at the University of Washington. His research focuses on developing fast and high-resolution retinal imaging tools to measure the functional activity of individual retinal cells in living humans. He will be talking about Adaptive Optics Line Scan OCT and its Application in Optoretinography.

Yan Liu from The Indiana University School of Optometry:

Dr. Yan Liu is a research associate at the Indiana University School of Optometry. He completed his postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology, received his Ph.D. from Washington University, and earned his bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University. He will be talking about Point-Scanning Spectral-Domain Adaptive Optics OCT.

 

 

Pedro Mece from Institut Langevin:

Dr. Pedro Mece is a CNRS Researcher at Institut Langevin. His research work focuses on the development of optical methods for imaging, focusing and wavefront shaping in complex media and is currently working on novel methods for Full-Field OCT and Adaptive Optics applied for in-vivo human retina imaging. He will be talking about Cellular-resolution retinal imaging over a large field-of-view with time-domain full-field OCT.