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"Compared with AO-SLO systems, the design of our TOPI instrument has a similar lateral resolution but provides a larger FOV (5° × 5°), corresponding to the largest FOV an AO system can acquire in a single acquisition."

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"Rossi et al. xref reported imaging GC somas visualized by AO-SLO, implementing aperture split detection; Liu et al. xref and Wells-Gray et al. xref reported visualization of GC somas using AO-OCT with volume averaging."

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"OCT and AO-SLO revealed that vitelliform lesions are characterized by progressive changes in the cone mosaic corresponding to a thinning of the ONL and then disruption of the EZ, which are associated to decreased sensitivity and visual acuity."

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"In future work, introduction of cell-type-specific fluorescent optogenetic reporters into other relevant cell types, including rods, Müller glia, and bipolar cells, will enable detection of individual cell–cell interactions in vivo with AO-SLO, while refined analysis with AO-OCT may reveal the fate of individual rods and other cells ( xref )."

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"Combined with infrared or near-infrared (NIR) AF, enhanced with indocyanin green, or in multimodal setups, AO-SLO successfully identified the RPE mosaic in healthy volunteers xref , xref , xref , xref , xref and patients. xref , xref However, AF-based imaging methods generate significantly long-lasting AF reduction at exposures lower than those imposed by safety norms. xref Hence, despite methodologic improvements, RPE visualization remains hindered by safety concerns and relatively long acquisition times. xref "

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"Image quality constitutes a potentially significant drawback for the majority of imaging technologies including FA, AO-SLO and OCT-A, since intraocular scattering and absorption have a strong impact on the quality of images. xref Situations affecting image quality may include small pupil, media opacities and poor subject cooperation, which may be common in older subjects."

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"In another study, Palochak et al, using AO-SLO, showed that retinal blood flow and velocity in diabetic patients without DR were significantly higher than in the control group, and these parameters were significantly reduced in eyes with NPDR compared to the controls."

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"It should be noted that this new focus shifting method can be easily translated to the AO control of other wavefront sensors, such as the SH-WFS, and to other AO retinal imaging modalities, such as AO-SLO, as well, potentially improving AO performance."

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"In vivo visualization of human RPE cells has been demonstrated with dark-field AO-SLO [ xref , xref ], AO-SLO autofluorescence [ xref – xref ] and intravenously injected indocyanine-green (ICG) fluorescence imaging [ xref – xref ], transscleral optical phase imaging (TOPI) with AO [ xref , xref ], and AO-OCT [ xref , xref , xref – xref ]."

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"The AO-SLO instrument had a reported axial resolution of ∼10 μm and a submicron transverse resolution, and also enabled individual nerve fiber bundles, blood vessels and capillaries within the mouse retinal nerve fiber layer to be resolved."

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"Whilst methods are being developed to image RGCs in vivo noninvasively using adaptive optics (AO), in combination with a scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO), xref optical coherence tomography (OCT) xref , xref , xref or a multimodal system combining both AOSLO and AO‐OCT, xref significant challenges remain. xref For example, there are still difficulties in differentiating RGC subtypes from each other and from displaced amacrine cells (AC). xref In addition, studies using such technologies have only been conducted so far on very small samples using specialist equipment not widely available to researchers or clinicians."

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"Noninvasive optical imaging methods combining AO-SLO with short-wavelength AF have been used for visualization of RPE cells in the living human eye, xref but their clinical development has been limited by safety concerns associated with AF techniques."

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"Reflectance imaging such as dark-field AO-SLO imaging is safer, xref but the quality of RPE images is reduced."

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"On the other hand, AO-SLO findings suggest that pore area is significantly larger in glaucoma than normal subjects."

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"However, the AO-SLO study included many patients with myopia, and the study population overall had significantly elongated axial length, which could have caused the laminar pores to have a larger area."

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"AO-SLO, AO-FIO, AO-OCT, FLIO, and PS-OCT are the remaining investigative tools that are close to clinical use."

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"All previously published reports have used 2D evaluation of laminar pore area with AO-SLO, [ xref ] auto-segmentation of the laminar pores with SS-OCT [ xref , xref ], or have used new types of OCT. [ xref ] However, when the disc angle is tilted, accurate evaluation of pore structure in 2D is very difficult."

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"Moreover, TOPI needs lower radiant exposure than AO-SLO systems, xref that is 3 orders of magnitude lower than that imposed by the American National Standards Institute norms on maximum permissible exposure."

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"Figure xref (A-J) shows the angiography of retina and choroid through green fluorescing fluorescein and micellar nanoparticle tagged with red fluorescing rhodamine-X. Comprehensively, a combined OCT/SLO system comprises AO-SLO for imaging physiological events of retinal components such as blood flow, microglia cells, capillaries, GFP expression of cone photoreceptor cells and its three-dimensional localization by combining with the widefield OCT/pv-OCT and SLO records."

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"AO-SLO is one of the most appropriate imaging biomarkers used in recent times designed exquisitely for the fluorescence and reflectance imaging of the retina of the mouse xref ."

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"This further illustrates the localization and visualization of the morphological structures and cells in 3D by combining the AO-SLO data with wide field OCT/phase variance OCT and SLO data."

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"The images were combined with the OCT retinal vasculature data, followed by the localization of fluorescent cells and retinal microvasculature events in higher resolution in AO-SLO imaging xref ."

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"A general method was developed using the pv-OCT and AO-SLO system for the localization and characterizing the retinal microvasculature."

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"The above study also have reported the fluorescence images and mapping of the retina in which the AO-SLO images are localized within the distinct axial focal planes and patterns of knocked GFP expressed cells."

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"These morphological variations of the microglia from highly branched to amoeboid shape along the axis through the retinal layers can also be visualized by using the AO-SLO system."

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"To address this challenge, adaptive optics (AO) has been combined with SLO to correct the optical aberrations, enabling fine cellular structures within the retina to be resolved. xref developed a custom AO-SLO instrument for non-invasive imaging of the mouse retina and generated the first in vivo images of the photoreceptor mosaic in mice."

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"Here, an imaging platform combining multimodal AO-scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) with AO-optical coherence tomography (AO-OCT) is developed to make a side-by-side comparison of the same RPE cells imaged across four modalities: AO-darkfield, AO-enhanced indocyanine green (AO-ICG), AO-infrared autofluorescence (AO-IRAF), and AO-OCT."

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"Using the results from the fine-tuning (Layer 5) method, they calculated four different cone mosaic parameters that were similar to the results found in AO-SLO images, showing the utility of their method. xref Christopher et al . demonstrated that deep learning methodologies have high diagnostic accuracy for identifying fundus photographs with glaucomatous damage to the optic nerve head in a racially and ethnically diverse population."

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"Retinal imaging techniques such as color fundus photography, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO), and optical coherence tomography (OCT), combined with procedures such as fluorescein angiography (FA), have enabled multidimensional en face and cross-sectional imaging to resolve critical structural information about the retinal vasculature. xref – xref However, clinical biomarkers observed via these modalities are largely limited to qualitative assessments of vascular health and fail to adequately quantify retinal hemodynamics. xref Advanced retinal imaging techniques such as OCT-angiography (OCT-A), adaptive optics-SLO (AO-SLO), and Doppler-OCT have begun to elucidate and quantify the relationships between retinal vascular anatomy and function, but each with its own limitations. xref – xref For example, OCT-A offers high resolution and three-dimensional reconstruction of the retinal microvasculature without the use of exogenous contrast agents, but the limited temporal resolution makes it difficult to evaluate blood flow dynamics in slow flow regions. xref Doppler-OCT is a technique that enables quantitative velocimetry based on OCT, but this method is highly sensitive to the orientation of vessels with respect to the illumination source, complicating its clinical use. xref , xref Moreover, AO-SLO offers unprecedented lateral resolution and may complement OCT-A for resolving the microvasculature, but velocity measurements with AO-SLO are sensitive to vessel orientation and size and are limited to a relatively small field of view (FOV). xref , xref , xref Computational tools have been developed to improve retinal blood flow speed mapping in OCT-A and to automate and hasten velocity determinations with AO-SLO, but limitations in temporal resolution and FOV remain to be addressed. xref , xref Therefore, the development and validation of complementary imaging strategies that can not only detect structural changes to the retina but also quantify physiological variations (i.e., changes in retinal hemodynamics) with high temporal resolution and a wide FOV may critically expand the arsenal of tools for studying and monitoring retinal disease."

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"Here, we present our work integrating OCT into an existing mouse retinal AO-SLO system, resulting in a multi-modal AO-enhanced imaging system of the living mouse eye."

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"Furthermore, AO-SLO imaging of transgenic reporter mice enabled visualization of fluorescently labeled ganglion cell bodies, dendrites and axons ( xref )."

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"Important advances in near infra-red phase contrast AO-SLO have also enabled label-free imaging of mouse retinal microglia and their process dynamics over time ( xref )."

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"Therein, we report a case of a 32-year-old Japanese American woman who presented to our clinic with a diagnosis of VKH and was followed with both standard confocal AO-SLO (cAOSLO) and sdAOSLO."

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"This provides proof-of-concept that phase contrast AO-SLO could be translated to perform in vivo microglia imaging in the human eye."

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"By using AO-SLO, the authors were able to identify dark cones that were not visible in other modalities, such as OCT and fundus photography."

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"The new system allows either independent or simultaneous data acquisition of AO-SLO and AO-OCT, depending on the requirements of specific scientific experiments."

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"Using images generated with AO-SLO in a quadrant detection scheme, they propose the use of emboss filtering and minimum intensity projection as an image processing pipeline to enhance the visualization of photoreceptor cells."

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"Another potential strategy to improve the accuracy of LSCI-based flow rate measurements would be to derive a standardized scale of speckle contrast relative to flow velocity by comparing speckle intensity to absolute particle velocity within specific vessels as calculated using other advanced imaging modalities such as AO-SLO, which has demonstrated the ability to quantify single cell velocities across the full range of retinal vessels, from capillaries to primary arteries and veins. xref , xref – xref Although automated analysis workflows have simplified the lengthy and laborious process of determining cell velocities with AO-SLO, the limited FOV still requires flow analysis to be performed on a vessel-by-vessel basis. xref A side-by-side comparison of LSCI and AO-SLO would enable LSCI-based measurements of speckle intensity to be related directly to flow velocity (at least within the individual animal) and would allow quantitative measurements of flow in vessels across the whole retina without montaging."

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"The application of the aforementioned optical retinal imaging techniques in mice xref is particularly important as rodents serve as a primary animal model for exploring not only fundamental aspects of vision science and ophthalmic research, xref xref – xref including investigations into phototransduction mechanisms, xref , xref but also broader applications in the field of general neuroscience. xref Various groups studied neurovascular coupling in rodents subject to flicker stimulation. xref , xref Inner retinal blood flow has been monitored with LDH in rodents at a temporal resolution of. xref Ultrahigh-resolution images of the mouse retina have been acquired with visible light OCT xref and AO-SLO. xref Zhang et al. xref , xref demonstrated in vivo cellular resolution neuronal and vascular retinal imaging in mice without AO and, more recently, with AO. xref A sensorless AO approach has also provided volumetric cellular imaging of microglia throughout the inner retina. xref "

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"The Adaptive Optics technology has been used to analyse the status of photoreceptors after idiopathic macular hole surgery by Ooto xref , Yokota xref , and Hansen xref with AO-SLO, and by Markan using AO-FIO xref ."

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"Over the 22 min of the SLOAO part of the experiment, the number of labeled and static leukocytes within the retina of the fundus would be expected to be few—perhaps no more than ten per SLO field—and[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Although the AO-SLO in MAORI cannot resolve the cones in the center of the fovea, even in CT subjects, it could readily resolve peripheral photoreceptors in all CT subjects and, where they were not ob[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Third, with the SLOAO method, only the perifundal portion of the retina was analyzed, (where the differences between normal and treated were significant), whereas leukostasis was assessed in the enti[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"With the AO-SLO, we are unable to image multiple vascular layers at the same time."

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"The apparently greater extent of leukocytic stasis in the ramipril- and losartan-treated groups relative to normal obtained with the SLOAO may have been lost in the averaging across the entire retina[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"A similar variability in image quality was found in adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) [ xref ]."

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"Another related study investigated the variability of AO-SLO image quality over time in subjects without pupil dilation [ xref ]."

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"The study examined 11 patients with very mild to moderate non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) and 10 healthy subjects using fundus photography, optical coherence tomography (OCT), OCT angiography (OCTA), adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO), adaptive optics OCT and OCTA (AO-OCT(A))."

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"Using AO-SLO, capillary looping, inflections and dilations were detected in 8 patients with very mild or mild NPDR, and microaneurysms containing hyperreflective granular elements were visible in 9 patients with mild or moderate NPDR."

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"As a second approach for studying leukostasis and confirming the SLOAO findings, retinal flat mounts were stained with FITC-concanavalin-A and with CD45 antibodies."

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"Confirming previous observations ( Adamis, 2002 ), a few static leukocytes were observed in the retina of normal rats by both SLOAO and FITC-concanavalin-A + CD45 imaging ( Figs."

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"The differences between treated and untreated diabetic groups were, however, significant when the measurements were made by the SLOAO method ( Fig. 2 )."

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"First, the SLOAO part of the study was done in vivo, whereas the concanavalin-A + CD45 work was done on perfused and fixed tissue."

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"Nevertheless, if accumulated protein altered the optical properties of the cone inner segment (such as by causing it to swell), then it is reasonable that the waveguiding properties of the cones would[MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Imaging modalities used for each individual participant are listed in Table xref , of which the image areas of AO-SLO, AO-OCT and AO-OCTA are specified in the Supplementary Table xref online."

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"In AO-SLO images, LIR lesions were predominantly characterized by hyporeflective regions, suggesting potential cone loss at the fovea, accompanied by the presence of sizable clumps of hyperreflective material within these lesions."

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"Most of the abnormalities could be identified on OCTA of the superficial and deep capillary plexus, although their structural characteristics did not appear as detailed as in AO-SLO, indicating they were perfused."

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"Fig. 6 A shows a sample, confocal AO-SLO montage near the PRL ( e ."

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"Fig. 6 C shows an AO-SLO of the same location in the same CT subject obtained with the offset aperture, and Fig. 6 D shows the same for the XLRS subject."

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"Capillary loops were sharply outlined by AO-SLO in a 27-year-old male with type 1 diabetes for 10 years (participant no."

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"A post-processed motion-contrast based rendition of the AO-SLO image showed distinct perfusion of a large fraction of the loops and narrower vessels (Fig.  xref )."

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"The large field of view SLO image provides a good overview over the fundus of the eye, while the high resolution AO-SLO image shows cellular details such as the photoreceptor mosaic."

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"Figure  xref a,b show the AO-SLO images near the fovea with a focus on the nerve fiber layer and photoreceptor layer, respectively, with the same region of interest."

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"In the same eye, AO-SLO imaging inferior of the foveal avascular zone (Fig.  xref ) showed capillary tortuosity, dilation, looping, s-shaped inflections, and small microaneurysms."

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"Currently, the most commonly used AO enhanced imaging technologies are AO flood illumination fundus camera (AO-FC) and AO scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO), which have both been applied on healthy eyes and in several retinal pathologies [ xref – xref ]."

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"To assess the cone photoreceptors morphology and associated retinal sensitivity in laser-induced retinopathy (LIR) using adaptive optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) and microperimetry (MP)."

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"An s-shaped capillary inflection to the left in the AO-SLO image appeared to be perfused in both plexuses, whereas another one in the middle of the field appeared to be perfused mainly in the deep capillary plexus on OCTA."

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"Participants underwent comprehensive evaluations including AO-SLO, MP, and spectral-domain OCT."

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"It is noteworthy that despite the distinct visual appearance of images captured on split-detector AO-SLO, denoiseGAN consistently enhances the spatial frequency signals associated with cellular structure and overall image quality indices, which validates the generalizability of denoiseGAN."

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"The non-perfused areas in the diabetes patient were located near capillary abnormalities, the characteristics of which could be seen using AO-SLO as exemplified in the following."

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"Because the macular cone photoreceptors are directly visualizable by adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO), a small subset of the boys under study was recruited for AO-SLO imaging of [MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"A variety of capillary abnormalities was observed with AO-SLO in the diabetes patients, including capillary loops (participant no."

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"AO-SLO videos were acquired sequentially using both a 100-μm (~2 Airy disk) diameter confocal pinhole and a 500-μm pinhole offset by ~6 Airy disk diameters ( Chui et al., 2012 ; Elsner et al., 2000 , [MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Frames from AO-SLO video capturing eccentric strips (~2°–10°) were montaged into a single image in Photoshop CS3 (Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA), the last version in which interactive “photomerging” is [MISSING/INVALID CREDENTIALS: limited to 200 char for Elsevier]"

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"Figure  xref shows representative OCT, AO-OCT and AO-SLO images of a patient with a rare inherited retinal disease, choroideremia."

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"Microaneurysms seen on OCTA were often small and might easily have been missed, had only OCTA been used without AO-SLO."

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"Microaneurysms were seen on AO-SLO as distended hyporeflective extensions of capillaries with surrounding assemblies of hyperreflective granularities of varying size and reflectivity (participant no."

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"Lesion morphology, cone density, dispersion and regularity in AO-SLO were assessed and correlated with visual function."

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"An elongated microaneurysm, capillary loops, and abnormally large capillaries at the edge of the foveal avascular zone were seen on AO-SLO (Fig.  xref ) in a 30-year-old male with type 1 diabetes of 15 years’ duration (participant no."

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"This image is comparable to what can be obtained with two-dimensional imaging methods such as AL-FC or AO-SLO."

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"Overall, a multitude of images such as OCT, OCTA, SLO and AO-OCT, AO-OCTA, AO-SLO images are acquired during one single clinical session and provides a one-to-one correspondence between the various regions of interest that are imaged."

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"A hyperreflective line along the axis of the microaneurysm on AO-SLO may represent a perfused center."

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"AO-SLO imaging of the microaneurysm on the right eye showed that it had a central hyperreflectivity, consistent with a high rate of perfusion (Fig.  xref )."

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"So far, cone density values for healthy individuals have been reported in histologic examinations and studies using AO-FC and AO-SLO."

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"The complete elimination of artefacts produced by fast motion occurring for example during saccades has yet to be accomplished, but with reasonable compliance from the test subject, the region of interest selected for high-resolution imaging by AO-OCT can be imaged to a level of practical utility and residual motion is then corrected by multimodal image registration software that uses the recorded SLO and AO-SLO images as reference for registration and alignment of the OCT and AO-OCT images, respectively."

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"Juxtafoveal microaneurysms were also seen using AO-SLO in the right eye of a 32-year-old male with type 1 diabetes for 4 years (participant no."

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"By comparing the AO-OCT images with AO-SLO and zoomed in OCT images, it is obvious that AO-OCT provides more insight about the disease at the region of interest."

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"Regarding the measurement of total cone density, current AO-FC and AO-SLO systems have two relevant benefits over AO-OCT systems: First, the images are less prone to motion artefacts due to faster en-face acquisition times; second, they often utilize image-averaging algorithms, improving the overall image quality and thus cone depiction [ xref , xref – xref ]."

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"Capillary dilation, looping, occlusion and non-perfusion using AO-SLO have previously been reported in longitudinal case studies of severe NPDR and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) xref , xref ."

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"For comparison of overall cone densities, integrating AO-OCT signals from the cone layers to a FEF image can be used, with results similar to findings obtained by AO-SLO or AO-FC imaging."

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"Previous analysis of structural characteristics of microaneurysms using AO-SLO xref , xref in different stages of diabetic retinopathy has described intraluminal hyperreflective structures as in our study, and the method has been reported to have a higher sensitivity for the detection of microaneurysms than fundus photography xref ."

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"Furthermore, blood flow velocity may be determined using a post-acquisitional software analysis of images from an AO-SLO video based on the angle by which erythrocytes have moved between consecutive images xref ."

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"Another analysis of AO-SLO videos acquired at different time points has also been used to detect transient non-perfusion xref , xref ."

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"The prototype used in this study was not capable of performing AO-SLO videos."

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"These results are similar to histology and two-dimensional AO-FC and AO-SLO imaging."

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"Using different AO-SLO systems, Song et al. reported mean densities between 18.500 to 24.200/mm 2 at ecc 0.9 mm [ xref ], Zhang et al. showed approximately 20 to 25.000 cones/mm 2 at ecc 1mm [ xref ], and Park et al. found densities between 18.600 and 20.200/mm 2 at ecc 1mm [ xref ]."

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"While a lower eccentricity-dependent decline of cone density was described for the horizontal meridians in histology and AO-SLO (referred as “cone streak”), a statistical difference was so far only reported by Park et al. who found the same effect of meridians on cone density as we did (N,T > I, S) at ecc 1.0mm, but not at other eccentricities [ xref – xref ]."

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"It demonstrated that AO-SLO can show capillary loops and focal capillary dilation in mild NPDR, lesions that only show up as red dots on a conventional fundus photograph, if they can be seen at all."

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"Conventional OCTA scans or motion contrast analysis of consecutive AO-SLO frames could be used to indicate if the abnormalities were perfused or not."

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"A further aim of our study was to utilize the “Find Maxima” function in the open-source image platform Fiji as an easy tool for semi-automated counting of cone density, which has been previously applied on AO-SLO images [ xref ]."

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"Similar to AO-SLO, ICCs between graders were excellent and results of density measurements differed in most cases between 1.0% and 3% or roughly 150 to 500 cones/mm 2 ."

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"Although the number of included eyes is similar to histologic studies and reports using AO-SLO/FC [ xref , xref , xref , xref ], Park et al. were able to assess the density in 192 eyes using AO-SLO [ xref ]."

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"However, this limitation affects most AO-SLO and AO-FC systems [ xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref ]."

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"Thus, the capillary aneurysmal lesions seen using the trypsin digest technique xref , which appear as the s-shaped capillary inflections we found using AO-SLO, have been suggested to be derived from capillary loops."

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"Retinal microaneurysms have furthermore been examined with electron microscopy and confocal scanning laser microscopy altogether suggesting that their intraluminal content, which we saw as hyperreflective granularities in AO-SLO imaging, may represent aggregates of endothelial cells xref , xref , inflammatory cells, erythrocytes and lipid deposits xref , xref ."

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"This points to the fact that vessel contrast in AO-OCT, and for that matter also in AO-SLO images, is complicated."

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"Recently, there have been studies investigating the repeatability of cone photoreceptor imaging via adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopes (AO-SLO) in subjects with no pathology as well as various retinal genetic diseases. xref xref xref xref xref – xref AO-SLO images are created by scanning a small point source of light in a raster fashion; when combined with a pinhole filter, this technique leads to improved axial and lateral resolution compared to flood-illuminated AO."

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"In order to investigate the generalizability of denoiseGAN to AO retinal images captured on different devices and with distinct signal distributions and patterns, we directly applied the trained denoiseGAN to a split detector AO-SLO dataset ( xref ) and quantified the signal enhancement effect through power spectra comparison ( xref ) and BIQI scores ( xref )."

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"During image acquisition, the total power entering the eye from the AO-SLO and the wavefront sensor beacon were respectively 600 µW and 20 µW , which are below the ocular safety limits established by the ANSI."

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"Although we recently demonstrated an improved image contrast of in-vivo human retinal ganglion cells using a multi-offset aperture AO-SLO 4(a) [ xref ] compared to the work of Rossi et al. [ xref ], there was still regions where we could not clearly identify the cells because of low contrast."

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"After observing the subtle foveal irregularities in the photoreceptor layer in the left eye from the SD-OCT image, the patient was imaged on a research-grade AO-SLO system."

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"Briefly, the AO-SLO acquires 1° × 1° images of the retina at 60 frames per second at an imaging wavelength of 680 nm with a lateral resolution of ~ 2.3 µm."

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"Multiple AO-SLO datasets were acquired around the foveal center of both eyes and subsequently postprocessed to remove eye motion."

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"The montage of AO-SLO images for the left and right eyes, respectively, are shown (Fig. xref A, B)."

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"Only the loss of foveal cones was revealed in both the symptomatic (left) and asymptomatic (right) eyes using the AO-SLO, and only in the symptomatic eye using a clinical OCT system."

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"While the high-resolution AO-SLO imaging of the lesions did show areas of foveal cone loss, the cone photoreceptor mosaic 150 µm from the foveal center for the left eye and outside the umbo (right eye) were normal, as shown by the cone density measurements."

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"Furthermore, SD-OCT failed to show any structural changes in the asymptomatic eye (right eye) while the AO-SLO was able to detect smaller focal areas of cone loss, demonstrating the ability to detect structural changes before manifestation of functional loss noticed by the patient."

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"Applying the principles of spectroscopy and known absorption properties of hemoglobin, Schuman discussed using visible-light OCT to evaluate with very high resolution the oxygen saturation of the various layers of the eye attributable to the known absorption spectrum of hemoglobin. xref Used in conjunction with other technologies, such as OCTA or AO-SLO, structure and function can be evaluated simultaneously with visible-light OCT, providing powerful new insights into the pathology of eye disease. xref , xref "

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"She presented several AO-SLO studies that tracked disease progression by evaluating changes in the cone photoreceptor mosaic and noted that cone spacing and regularity have been correlated with photoreceptor function. xref The subtle, cellular-level data gathered from the addition of AO can provide critical information on changes in retinal disease, ranging from rare retinal dystrophies xref to prevalent conditions, such as age-related macular degeneration. xref Moreover, AO-SLO can be coupled with other techniques, such as microperimetry, to measure both structure and function at the cellular level. xref Austin Roorda, PhD, concluded, “The cellular-level access that we get with AO drives the paradigm shift in how we use ophthalmoscopy to study eye disease."

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"Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) was performed in some patients."

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"In the present study, we aimed to characterize the alterations in the outer retina and choroid in participants with PCA using SS-OCT, SS-OCTA and adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO)."

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"AO-SLO image analysis showed that the participants with PCA had relatively reduced cone cell density (Supplementary Fig.  xref and Supplementary Table xref )."

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"Fascinatingly, we observed that participants with PCA had reduced cone cell density measured on AO-SLO images compared with healthy control participants, suggesting potential cone loss."

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"Second, we used SS-OCT, SS-OCTA, and AO-SLO to detect the outer retinal and choroidal structure and microvasculature in participants with PCA."

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"Recently, adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) has been used for in vivo study of intermittent perfusion events detected by OCT-A and has revealed the role of sickled RBCs in promoting intravascular thrombus formations [ xref ]."

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"Meanwhile, AO-SLO enables non-invasive visualization of the human retina in vivo with single-cell resolution, particularly for evaluating the outer retina."

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"Future studies using AO-SLO along with OCT-A may help answer this question."

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"Observations of the cone photoreceptor mosaic with an AO flood-illuminated camera or an AO-SLO in retinitis pigmentosa patients have shown that the cone density can range from normal to severely reduced [ xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref ]."

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"AIM To report the foveal cone count in eyes with resolved endophthalmitis vis-à-vis normal fellow eyes using an indigenous adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO)."

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"Collected data included measurement of the best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging and AO-SLO imaging and cone counting at the fovea in both eyes."

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"TRANSLATIONAL RELEVANCE The current work describes the application of cellular-level imaging technique called adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) to the clinical condition of resolved endophthalmitis."

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"The study of retinal cell biology at the cellular level is possible using the emerging technology of AO-SLO."

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"When combining AO with these imaging techniques, the higher transverse resolution offers better visualisation of a small features including individual cells. xref To put this into context, adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO; Figure  xref ) provides up to 2.5 μm transverse resolution compared to a resolution of only 20 μm for a conventional fundus camera. xref , xref When applying AO to OCT (adaptive optics OCT or AO‐OCT), it is possible to achieve isotropic resolution with 2 μm resolution in all dimensions. xref "

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"The AO-SLO association was more accurate than the OCT [ xref ]."

sparser
"Moreover, future investigation with AO-SLO for subtle photoreceptor changes at the margins of EZ loss would be valuable to investigate the hypothesis and anatomic correlates of “photoreceptors at risk” in MacTel."

sparser
"Using either optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) or adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) imaging, cells which are mobile and ramified are detectable on the surface of the retina [ xref , xref , xref ]."

sparser
"These cells are believed to be macrophages based upon their ramified appearance, mobility, and expression of Cx3cr1 (a pan-macrophage marker) in mice using AO-SLO [ xref ]."

sparser
"Adaptive Optic Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO)."

sparser
"In particular, combining cSLO with adaptive optics (AO-SLO) has expanded its utility to include three-dimensional and time-resolved imaging. xref , xref While 2PM intrinsically enables three-dimensional imaging deep within the tissue, xref three-dimensional AO-SLO requires coregistration with OCT for focal depth calibration. xref , xref Adaptive optics may provide higher spatial resolution because they continuously correct system-inherent and tissue-inherent wavefront distortions, but their application requires more technical know-how and accordingly seems more challenging than the approach presented in this study."

sparser
"The AO subsystem in AO-SLO consists of a liquid crystal spacial light modulator."

sparser
"One big advantage of the AO-SLO is its capability to scan wider portions of the retina better than other modalities [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Adaptive Optics scanning ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) is an imaging modality based on Adaptive Optics (AO) Scanning and has been growing in popularity over the years [ xref ]."

sparser
"By reducing the effects of wavelength distortions, AO is able to improve the performance of an optical system. xref provides a comparison of the performance of the AO-SLO against commonly used imaging modalities: fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA), indocyanine green angiography (ICGA), OCT and fundus autofluorescence (FAF)."

sparser
"The major strength of the AO-SLO over the conventional modalities is its ability to scan wider portions of the retina."

sparser
"A related imaging modality, Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO), was recently used to study the spatiotemporal dynamics of GFP + microglia in a mouse model of photoreceptor damage, ( xref ) but this method does not provide key information about the presence or absence of NLRP3 inflammasomes in microglia."

sparser
"Visible (i.e., short wavelength autofluorescence, SWAF) and near-infrared autofluorescence (IRAF) adaptive optics–scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) has been used to target endogenous melanin and lipofuscin localized only in RPE cells [ xref , xref , xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Non-confocal dark field AO-SLO methodology, which detects multi-scattered back-reflected light while suppressing single-backscattered ballistic photons, has also been demonstrated to resolve the RPE mosaic [ xref ]."

sparser
"Dark-field AO-SLO offers no specific localized signal sensitivity with respect to RPE cells and typically provides the best contrast in the fovea and increasingly poorer images with increasing eccentricity, owing to scattering noise from other targets, particularly rod photoreceptors."

sparser
"In general, our data match previous AO-OCT single eccentricity values [ xref , xref ] and compare favorably with SWAF, IRAF, and dark-field AO-SLO [ xref , xref , xref , xref , xref ] and AO-ICG results [ xref ], albeit on the high side ( xref A)."

sparser
"Because of the micron-scale depth resolution afforded by the low coherence interferometry approach, AO-OCT volumes can be precisely segmented to visualize retinal layers and sub-layers, making AO-OCT more immune to crosstalk and interference from other structures of interest (e.g., PR signal imprinted on RPE images in dark-field AO-SLO)."

sparser
"Also, as seen in our data, speckle noise and longer imaging wavelengths make the resolution of PRs in the foveola (central 0.25°) extremely difficult, and this is a task better suited for AO-SLO."

sparser
"While our device includes AO-OCT and AO-SLO channels [ xref ], we did not collect small field videos from the foveola with AO-SLO to extract PR density values, and this is a limitation in our dataset."

sparser
"Amongst them are FA, ICGA, adaptive optics-scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO), optical coherence tomography (OCT; swept source (SS) and spectral domain (SD)), and optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) [ xref ]."

sparser
"AO-SLO has been used in the detection and diagnosis of CSCR."

sparser
"AO-SLO has the advantage of using a confocal configuration to generate images at different planes and depths in the retina [ xref , xref , xref ]."

sparser
"AO-SLO is an imaging tool that can be used to evaluate retinal layer integrity and changes in visual outcomes before and after resolution of CSCR."

sparser
"To investigate distribution differences of parafoveal cone photoreceptors between dominant and non-dominant eyes using the adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AO-SLO) system."

sparser
"The AO-SLO is able to detect decrease in cone density and disruption of inner segment/outer segment (IS/OS) or intermediate line on OCT [ xref ]."

sparser
"Retinal cone photoreceptor observations were performed at an eccentricity of 3.0° from the foveal center using the AO-SLO system."

sparser
"AO-SLO can provide precise localization of intraretinal structures such as hyperreflective dots (HRDs) which represent cellular debris from serous detachment of RPE and decreased retinal metabolic support [ xref ]."

sparser
"Although AO-SLO imaging discussed earlier shows localization of intraretinal HRDs, quantification methods have not been established."

sparser
"AO-SLO imaging also revealed a decrease in photoreceptor density and increased cone spacing in patients with AMD Stages 1 to 3, as well as a spectrum of photoreceptor changes, ranging from variability in cell reflectivity to decreased cell density ( xref )."

sparser
"Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) has been a powerful tool to study retinal structure and function, providing in vivo cellular resolution imaging with improved contrast and optical sectioning capability [ xref ]."

sparser
"The evaluation of denoiseGAN on both synthetic and real AO retinal image datasets, including both confocal and split detector AO-SLO modalities, provides valuable insights into its performance."

sparser
"Different implementations of such off-axis detection methods on both AO-SLO and AO-FIO, as offset aperture, split detection, dark-field, and multi-offset contributed to directly image red blood cells, blood vessel walls, photoreceptor inner segment and ganglion cells in-vivo ."

sparser
"Recently, Guevara-Torres et al. [ xref ] proposed a geometric optical model for offset aperture in AO-SLO."

sparser
"In this Letter, we use the Pittsburgh multi-offset AO-SLO [ xref ], which contains an off-axis detector that can be precisely positioned perpendicularly to the optic axis in eight different positions [ xref ], to demonstrate that while one axis will indeed present an asymmetric light distribution generating high cellular contrast, the perpendicular axis has a symmetric light distribution strongly diminishing cellular contrast for this given direction."

sparser
"The Pittsburgh multi-offset AO-SLO was described in details elsewhere [ xref ]."

sparser
"More recently, non-confocal detection [ xref ], which captures multiply scattered light, has been applied to AO-SLO imaging, showing enhanced contrast and visualization of retinal structures such as cone inner segments [ xref ], retinal pigment epithelium [ xref ], retinal vessels and capillaries [ xref , xref ] and retinal ganglion cells [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"The optical design of an AO-SLO is also complex due to scanning mirrors and the requirement for multiple relay telescopes to reimage the pupil."

sparser
"The optical design is greatly simplified, compared to other confocal and split aperture configurations, as the lens-based system keeps the system aberrations low [ xref ] and removes the need for off-axis configurations [ xref – xref ] typically required in AO-SLO and AO-OCT systems when using spherical mirrors [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Phase contrast imaging of static structure using the AO-pcMLO reveals a photoreceptor mosaic appearing similar to that obtained by a split-detection AO-SLO [ xref ] and also a similar DMD line scan ophthalmoscope [ xref ]."

sparser
"A dual-beam non-confocal AO-SLO with a small temporal offset between channels was able to measure capillary flow velocity using blood cell displacement in two channel images [ xref ]."

sparser
"Here, we expand upon this earlier report by longitudinally characterizing persistent, widespread dark cones observed within and near the macula using multimodal AO scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) and AO optical coherence tomography (AO-OCT), alongside detailed analysis of retinal function in a patient with OT ( xref )."

sparser
"AO-SLO imaging revealed widespread dark cones intermixed with normally reflective cones in all areas imaged during the entire longitudinal study, and the high-resolution images provided by AO-SLO allowed the same dark cones to be tracked longitudinally ( xref , xref )."

sparser
"These dark cones can be readily identified by examining the co-registered confocal reflectance and non-confocal split detection AO-SLO images, which reveal the cone outer segment reflectivity and cone inner segment structure, respectively ( xref )."

sparser
"Then ocular aberrations with and without a 0 Dpt. contact lens were measured with a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (SHWS) in a customized AO-SLO system."

sparser
"Ocular aberrations measured with and without contact lenses with a custom mouse retinal AO-SLO system employed with Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor ( xref ) are presented."

sparser
"Spatially and temporally co-registered AO-SLO imaging confirmed that the dark cones surrounded by reflective rods (e.g., blue arrows in xref ) seen in confocal reflectance did indeed contain intact inner segments, with a small population of cones that remained normally reflective."

sparser
"AD contributed to AO-SLO instrument and DeMotion image registration software development."

sparser
"Lesion morphology in AO-SLO correlated with EZ defects observed in OCT, showing a positive correlation in size (r = 0.84, P<0.001) but not with retinal sensitivities (P = 0.09)."

sparser
"Numerous algorithms have been developed for registering images from adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopes (AO-SLO) xref xref xref – xref and AO-OCT. xref xref – xref These are based universally on strip-wise registration of two-dimensional (2D) en face images."

sparser
"While several reliable automated PR and ganglion cell segmentation methods for AO-SLO [ xref – xref ] and AO-OCT [ xref – xref ] have been developed, reliable automated RPE segmentation in AO-OCT images has not been comprehensively addressed."

sparser
"Boretsky et al, using AO-SLO, found increasing disruption of photoreceptors across the macula in direct relation to the progression of AMD [ xref ]."

sparser
"In their study using AO-SLO, Takayama et al examined pathological changes in the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in eyes with glaucoma, finding a decrease in the width of the nerve fiber bundles in both clinically normal and abnormal regions of the retina."

sparser
"Adaptive optics-scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) resolves images of the retina at the cellular level[ xref , xref ] and in fact, is capable of revealing subtle alterations including decreased cone density and increased spacing in areas of otherwise normal photoreceptor layer thickness.[ xref , xref , xref ] Numerous technical hurdles specific to AO-SLO—the requirement of stable fixation, complexity of instrument operation, high costs and limited availability—limit its practical utility and makes OCT a more suitable endpoint modality for ABCA4 disease, at least in the near future.[ xref ]"

sparser
"Stevenson and Roorda xref first developed a 2D strip-wise registration algorithm to register images from AO-SLO to a synthetic global reference."

sparser
"As we will discuss, we have previosuly adapted this algorithm to AO-OCT volumes because their en face projections are distorted similarly to AO-SLO images."

sparser
"The diminished regularity of the cone photoreceptor arrangement determined with AO-SLO has been correlated with increasing DR severity and DME [ xref ]."

sparser
"Vogel et al. xref utilized a map-seeking circuit algorithm to register images from AO-SLO."

sparser
"Bedggood and Metha xref used a strip-wise registration algorithm to register simulated AO-SLO images from high-speed AO flood illumination (200 Hz)."

sparser
"The simulated AO-SLO images were generated as follows: First, they computed the translational shifts between AO flood illumination images and upsampledto generate quasi-eye movements (from 200 to 1000 Hz)."

sparser
"Second, they temporally downsampled AO flood illumination images (from 200 to 20 Hz) to generate quasi AO-SLO images."

sparser
"Finally, they divided each quasi AO-SLO image into 50 strips and translated the strips based on the quasi-eye movement to simulate the distorted AO-SLO image."

sparser
"Additionally, an association between capillary nonperfusion in the deep capillary plexus and abnormalities in the photoreceptor layer in DR has been reported using both AO-SLO and OCTA [ xref ]."

sparser
"Azimipour et al. xref used a strip-wise registration algorithm to register AO-SLO and AO-OCT images and estimate the motion within a reference image."

sparser
"Ooto et al, using AO-SLO, revealed abnormal cone mosaic and reduced cone density in eyes with resolved CSCR, and these abnormalities were correlated with decreased VA [ xref ]."

sparser
"Vienola et al, using AO-SLO, revealed hyperautofluorescent punctate patches in patients with CSCR, which may correspond to the accumulation of fluorophores within macrophages from RPE and photoreceptors during the active stage of the disease [ xref ]."

sparser
"In addition, a case report presenting the application of AO-SLO in a patient with malignant hypertension has been published [ xref ]."

sparser
"However, the slower volume image acquisition rate of AO-OCT (, compared tofor AO-SLO) results in more severe distortions."

sparser
"The AO-SLO camera enables us to observe retinal structure at the cellular level or the dynamics of the cell flow of the inner retina."

sparser
"High resolution AO-SLO imaging showed in vivo observation of micro-changes of capillary such as occlusion, recanalization, dilatation, resolution of local retinal hemorrhage, capillary hairpin formation, capillary bend formation, or microaneurysm formation in the macula area of DR patients [ xref ]."

sparser
"Hasegawa and colleagues demonstrated the integrity of cones in glaucoma eyes using prototype AO Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) [ xref ]."

sparser
"AO technologies have also been combined with optical coherence tomography (AO-OCT), fundus photography and scanning-laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO), that increased the sensitivity and resolution and thus provided new insights into the effects of retinal degenerations ( xref – xref , xref – xref )."

sparser
"Interestingly, AO-OCT with volume averaging produced images of GCs with unprecedented clarity, allowing reliable mapping of morphometry of retinal neuron somas across the living human retina. xref There have been many reports of imaging inner retinal neurons in the mouse retina labeled by extrinsic fluorescent proteins or dyes and detected by fluorescence emission SLO. xref There have also been reports of imaging retinal neuron somas using AO-SLO with split detection like in human studies. xref However, there have been no reports on the visualization of inner retinal neurons based on volume averaging of OCT or AO-OCT data from the mouse eye."

sparser
"A study investigating RP patients with Usher syndrome has further shown that the foveal cone density determined with an AO-SLO can be decreased before visible changes in the SD-OCT or a decline in visual function ( xref )."

sparser
"Moreover, in this study, retinal areas within the hyperautofluorescence in FAF image indicated normal outer retinal structures, whereas the AO-FIO images displayed increased spacing in the cone mosaic, as previously found with, AO-SLO imaging ( xref ) and in descriptive analysis ( xref )."

sparser
"AO-SLO — based on raster scanning a focused spot of light across the retina — has been the most extensively used ophthalmoscope for cellular-level scientific and clinical studies of the retina."

sparser
"Integration of multiply scattered light detection xref , xref – xref and single- and multiphoton fluorescence xref , xref , xref – xref of intrinsic and extrinsic fluorophores has greatly expanded the structural and functional properties of cells that the AO-SLO can reach."

sparser
"AO-SLO has been used in a large number of studies xref , xref – xref , xref – xref covering fundamental cell morphology and cell populations, clinical studies of retinal disease, vision restoration, therapeutics, phototoxicity, visual function of cell types, developmental processes, and neurovascular coupling and microvascular perfusion."

sparser
"AO-SLO provides exceptionally detailed images of the retina in both human and animal models."

sparser
"Historically, AO-OCT — based on low-coherence interferometry and typically raster scanning a focused spot of light across the retina — has been a less mature technology than AO flood illumination and AO-SLO."

sparser
"Other imaging techniques, such as laser speckle contrast imaging, allow for reproducible, dynamic blood flow analysis, but is limited to bulk flow data, measured in arbitrary units, and unable to determine retinal capillary flowrates. xref Adaptive optics-scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) has the highest resolution of current technologies and is able to determine absolute erythrocyte velocities and image capillaries precisely, but has a limited field of view and has not yet been used to assess plexus-specific capillary velocities. xref – xref "

sparser
"To circumvent this when detecting photoreceptors—light-sensitive cells that form a 2D mosaic—from AO-OCT images, Heisler et al. [ xref ] took advantage of existing manually labeled AO-SLO datasets."

sparser
"The other in vivo diameter measurement study by Rossi et al. [ xref ] measured soma diameters from AO-SLO images, which are different from AO-OCT images in terms of image quality."

sparser
"The inherent inter- and intra-variability of human graders in marking images due to the subjective nature of the task, as has been demonstrated for OCT and AO-SLO images [ xref , xref , xref ], could also contribute to the higher SD values of previous studies."

sparser
"The literature already contains an abundance of recent excellent reviews on high-resolution retinal imaging, mostly on the combination of AO and SLO (AO-SLO), including two in this journal ( xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref , xref ), and on the combination of AO and OCT (AO-OCT) ( xref , xref , xref ), the subject of this review."

sparser
"While these developments have been captured in prior reviews, they are often framed by what AO-OCT can achieve after all of its technological problems are overcome—capturing pristine 3D views of the cellular retina that are not possible using other imaging modalities such as AO-SLO and AO fundus ophthalmoscopy."

sparser
"Split detector adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) but not other imaging modalities are able to detect the presence of remnant cone structures [ xref ]."

sparser
"It is possible to compensate for these aberrations by using imaging systems that incorporate adaptive optics (AO), consisting of a wavefront sensor that measures aberrations in ocular optics and a deformable mirror or spatial light modulator to compensate for aberrations in living eyes. xref We previously demonstrated that AO-SLO captures images of individual retinal nerve fiber bundles in normal eyes and eyes of patients with glaucoma xref , xref and showed that nerve fiber bundle width changed in proportion to NFL thickness in eyes of patients with glaucoma compared to control eyes. xref Yet, it remains unclear whether AO-SLO is useful for detecting microstructural changes in retinal nerve fibers over time."

sparser
"Nerve fiber bundle narrowing expanded significantly on AO-SLO images (272 ± 33.0 μm at 1st examination and 325 ± 33.6 μm at final examination; P  < 0.0001, analysis of variance with repeated measurements)."

sparser
"In this study, we investigated longitudinal changes in retinal nerve fiber bundles using AO-SLO in eyes of patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG)."

sparser
"Fourteen eyes from 12 patients with POAG and NFL defects on fundus photography were imaged with AO-SLO."

sparser
"The expansion of nerve fiber bundle narrowing was detected on AO-SLO images in 8 eyes (57.1%) over an observation period of 1.44 ± 0.42 years (range, 1.0–2.2 years)."

sparser
"In 3 eyes, changes in the NFL were only detectable on AO-SLO images; in these eyes, no expansion of NFL defects was detectable on color fundus photography, red-free SLO imaging, or SD-OCT ( xref , xref )."

sparser
"Nerve fiber bundle narrowing expanded vertically on AO-SLO images."

sparser
"In the current study, AO-SLO images had better resolution and contrast than red-free fundus photography or red-free SLO images, and microstructural changes in the NFL were only detected on AO-SLO images in a proportion of eyes."

sparser
"AO-SLO revealed that nerve fiber bundles were narrowed but present in many areas in which NFL defects were observed on fundus photography and red-free SLO imaging. xref For this reason, we refer to abnormalities on AO-SLO images as “nerve fiber bundle narrowing” and those on red-free fundus photograph and red-free SLO imaging as “NFL defects.”"

sparser
"The current study showed that the expansion of nerve fiber bundle narrowing over time is distinguishable on AO-SLO."

sparser
"Moreover, in several eyes, this expansion was only detectable on AO-SLO images."

sparser
"Accordingly, AO-SLO has potential utility for monitoring glaucoma over shorter periods than is feasible with other modalities."

sparser
"Further studies are necessary to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of AO-SLO for detecting microstructural changes in glaucoma."

sparser
"We observed the expansion of retinal nerve fiber bundle narrowing with AO-SLO."

sparser
"AO-SLO may have particular utility for assessing short-term glaucoma-related changes in the retinal nerve fibers."

sparser
"By pairing adaptive optics (AO) technology with scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) and OCT (AO-OCT), it is now possible to obtain three-dimensional, cellular-level structural images of the optic nerve head and retina to study glaucoma. xref – xref Newly demonstrated AO-OCT methods can reliably quantify GCL soma morphology and density xref – xref and can distinguish retinal capillaries xref at significantly higher resolution than commercially available OCT-A, enabling analysis at multiple eccentricities from the fovea within the macula."

sparser
"Until now, AO has been integrated with flood illumination ophthalmoscopy, conventional fundus cameras, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO), as well as OCT (AO-OCT)."

sparser
"Kay et al. used OCT and AO-SLO to assess outer retinal structure in BVMD: disruption of the hyperreflective EZ identified by OCT corresponded to areas of cone disruption while the surrounding mosaic was found to be normal."

sparser
"AO-OCT also permits the sensitivity and axial resolution that AO-SLO lacks in imaging the LC with depth, even though AO-SLO can provide very-high-resolution imaging of the LC surface ( xref )."

sparser
"These images were processed using onboard software to reduce speckle noise and ensure accurate imaging of the retinal organoid sheet implantation area, previously identified using SD-OCT and AO-SLO."

sparser
"Around the same time, Grieve and Roorda demonstrated light-evoked changes in scattering from Ph using an AO-SLO ( xref )."

sparser
"AO–fundus camera imaging provides a large field of view, unlike limited AO-OCT and AO-SLO, although AO-OCT provides the depth information that enriches what is seen on AO–fundus camera images ( xref )."

sparser
"Currently, technological limitations, with regard to both field of view and image acquisition, hinder the clinical utility of AO-OCT and AO-SLO."

sparser
"Cooper et al. later showed a similar result using an AO-SLO with an infrared source with a 15 µm coherence length, and also proposed a repeatable way to quantify these responses by integrating the signal over hundreds of cones ( xref )."

sparser
"AO-SLO allows for high transverse resolution, short scanning times, and direct measurements of back-reflected light intensity."

sparser
"AO-OCT allows for high axial resolution, which is limited in AO-SLO."

sparser
"Between 1997 and 2002, investigators had successfully combined AO with ophthalmoscopic modalities, namely flood illumintion (AO-FI) fundus imaging ( xref ) and scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) ( xref ) to obtain images of the living human retina with cellular resolution."

sparser
"The AO-SLO images can be used to facilitate image registration, correcting for eye movement artifacts and allowing cellular-level resolution of photoreceptors and retinal pigment epithelium."

sparser
"To circumvent this limitation, we added an 840 nm SLO channel to the system to acquire co-extensive AO-OCT volumes and AO-SLO images, the latter having about 20% better resolution ( xref )."

sparser
"With the reference arm blocked, the system is a kilohertz AO-FI system with fine control over effective coherence length, and thus could be useful in resolving some of the ambiguities observed in functional AO-FI and AO-SLO experiments described above."

sparser
"Adaptive optic scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) can assess the outer retina and enable visualization at the cellular level [134] ."

sparser
"Combining OCT-A and AO-SLO has revealed that diabetic macular ischemia from deep capillary nonperfusion leads to photoreceptor loss and reduced packing density in the macula [135] ."

sparser
"Use of different excitation and detection wavelengths can be implemented in AO-SLO to combine with fluorescence and can be used to evaluate vascular pathology in diabetic retinopathy [137,138] ."

sparser
"Adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscope (AO-SLO) can directly image the cone photoreceptor mosaic in the living human retina, which offers a potentially great tool to detect cone-related ocular pathologies by quantifying the changes in the cone mosaic."

sparser
"Various methods have been developed for observing the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and nerve fiber layer defects (NFLDs): regular fundus photography, red-free fundus photography [ xref ], scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) [ xref ], adaptive optics SLO (AO-SLO) [ xref ], scanning laser polarimetry (GDx) [ xref ], Heidelberg Retinal Tomography (HRT) [ xref ], and optical coherence tomography (OCT)."

sparser
"This stands in contrast to our previous AO-SLO observations of the cones at greater eccentricities, although it is in agreement with AO-OCT cone counts at the same locations. xref Also in disagreement with our more eccentric AO-SLO data, we did not find greater irregularity in cone packing, as measured by the standard deviation in the number of sides or in intercone distances."
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sparser
"Tuten et al. [ xref ] examined 12 eyes from 12 patients diagnosed with choroideremia using AO-SLO and AO-microperimetry."

sparser
"These include AO-OCT xref – xref , combination of AO-SLO with short wavelength AF xref , dark-field reflectance imaging xref or NIRAF xref , xref , and multimodal approaches xref – xref ."

sparser
"AO overcomes this limitation by actively compensating for these aberrations using a deformable mirror, enabling cellular-resolution in vivo imaging. xref , xref Combined AO-SLO and AO-OCT systems are capable of imaging individual photoreceptors with up to two to three times higher transverse resolution than conventional SLO and OCT. xref xref xref – xref When combined with hardware- and software-based retinal-tracking technologies, xref AO systems can be used to quantify retinal photoreceptor distributions across large FOVs and study cellular changes associated with retinal disease progression ( xref ). xref , xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref xref – xref In addition to structural imaging, AO systems have also demonstrated benefits for functional imaging, including visualizing perfusion in the retinal microvasculature and phase dynamics from photoreceptor photostimulation. xref xref – xref "

sparser
"Despite these improvements, AO-SLO RPE imaging still requires a long acquisition time to accumulate enough frames with a strong enough signal to visualize RPE cells."

sparser
"First (as noted above), the AO-OCT cone counts at the same locations did not recapitulate the AO-SLO results."
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sparser
"In relating our AO-SLO results to our OCT findings, we note (again) that there was no significant change from normal cone density in our small cohort of preterm subjects."
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sparser
"AO-SLO techniques can provide numerous metrics of photoreceptor (PR) health, including cone density, cone spacing, and cone regularity [ xref ]."

sparser
"AO-SLO may also become more prevalent in the future, given its higher sensitivity and ability to image not just the presence or absence of photoreceptors, but also the degree of degeneration and integrity of organization."

sparser
"Its advantages include a larger FOV (5° × 5°) and quicker acquisition times (< 10 s) compared to AO-SLO RPE imaging."

sparser
"The accuracy of this dataset was recently confirmed using a larger cohort xref and imaged with a custom AO-SLO system xref ."

sparser
"This follow up study concluded that, while the average cell densities originally reported in Ref. xref are slightly higher than those measured by AO-SLO, especially within 300 µm of the fovea, the overall pattern of cell densities were highly concordant between the two studies xref ."

sparser
"In recent works, optical methods to observe the neuroretina and the RPE cells were proposed using AO-SLO with offset aperture xref – xref , split detector xref , xref , darkfield xref , autofluorescence xref , or AO-OCT xref , xref ."

sparser
"One in-vivo autofluorescence AO-SLO study provided a RPE cell density of 5890 cells/mm 2 (168 μm 2 area) and 5630 cells/mm 2 (195 μm 2 area) at 5° and 6.25° respectively (2 subjects) xref ."

sparser
"A recent study paired OCT with AO-SLO to compare the combined thickness of the HFL and ONL to photoreceptor density in a group of younger eyes (8 subjects, mean age 27.2 years) to a group of older eyes (8 subjects, mean age 56.2 years) xref ."

sparser
"On the contrary, for cellular-resolution imaging, AO-SLO and AO-OCT would be more difficult to implement in clinical setting."

sparser
"Moreover, the use of a non-scanning system makes the acquisition process more stable under the effects of eye motion, especially because AO-SLO and AO-OCT require measurement time of several minutes."

sparser
"Reduced image overlap is an inherent limitation of all AO retinal imaging modalities, including AO flood illumination, AO scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO), and AO-OCT, due to their small field of view."

sparser
"In a previous AO-SLO study of five single-gene dichromats, xref cone density and cone mosaic arrangement were found unaltered relative to those in color normals, thus supporting hypothesis 3."

sparser
"The different findings in dark holes between our study and prior studies may be attributed to the different imaging modalities used: AO flood illumination, xref , xref AO-SLO, xref and AO-OCT (this study)."

sparser
"This could be further substantiated with non-confocal AO-SLO imaging of the inner segment. xref Alternatively, cone loss could be causally related to dichromacy in which the dark holes are a consequence of incomplete replacement of lost cones with cones of another type during retinal development, as suggested in hypothesis 1."

sparser
"We used adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) to study the distribution of cones and AO-OCT to evaluate the interface of photoreceptors and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)."

sparser
"Up until now, AO-OCT imaging has generally been too slow to directly extract flow velocity as we do with the AO-SLO channel, although that is changing and many groups are actively exploring this capability [ xref , xref – xref ]."

sparser
"We marked the accompanying fundus photograph to indicate the site and size of the AO-SLO scans."

sparser
"On the AO-SLO, we identified and marked the cones, as illustrated in xref ."

sparser
"Some regions of the AO-SLO images had low intensity."

sparser
"Zhong et. al. and Guevara-Torres et. al. demonstrated the measurement of absolute blood velocity distribution with AO-SLO in a custom line-scan mode by resolving densely packed red blood cells (RBCs) in medium or large vessels and as a single file flow within capillaries [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Further, Joseph et al. developed a semi-automated method for blood flow measurement in mice using AO-SLO with line-scan and split detection modes [ xref ]."

sparser
"The retinal vascular response to functional stimulation such as hyperoxia has been demonstrated in humans using AO-SLO [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Additionally, AO-FC offers a more cost-effective and accessible alternative than AO-OCT and AO-SLO [ xref ]."

sparser
"The custom semi-automatic AO-SLO analysis algorithm provided precise and absolute measurements of blood cell velocity from space-time images."

sparser
"A study of AOSLO compared with conventional OCT in NPDR showed improved visualisation of various retinal features including retinal vessels in the inner retinal layers, extensive capillary remodelling despite mild or moderate NPDR, clinically undetected intraretinal vessel remodelling and varying blood flow patterns, and regions of bright cones and dark regions in the photoreceptor layer with dark regions corresponding to areas of overlying vascular remodelling. xref Compared with healthy controls, perifoveal capillary diameters were larger ( p  < 0.01) and small arteriolar walls were thicker ( p  < 0.05). xref "

sparser
"Although Zhong et al. demonstrated that the vessel diameter can be extracted from the AO-SLO line-scan frame from the dark bands surrounding the streak region [ xref ], average AO-OCT volumes produced much more reliable vessel diameter measurements, allowed for more vessel wall metrics (WLR, wall diameter, etc.) to be extracted, and avoided any ambiguity in terms of the axial position of the scan by leveraging the excellent depth sectioning capabilities of OCT."

sparser
"Song et al. aimed to investigate early photoreceptor changes in MacTel type 2 using AO-SLO."

sparser
"The mAO resonant scanner frequency (13.6 kHz), which sets the line rate of the AO-SLO line scan technique, sets an upper range on the measurable velocity, which we have calculated to be 6215 mm/s for intermediate-sized retinal vessels (10–100 µm)."

sparser
"Other challenges in this pilot clinical study included saccadic eye motion, which affects both AO-SLO and AO-OCT images."

sparser
"Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) [ xref , xref ] and AO-OCT [ xref , xref ] have a limited field of view."

sparser
"Furthermore, multimodal adaptive optics devices which use both AO-SLO and AO-OCT methods could also benefit from this approach [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Recently, Zhang et al. [ xref ] used adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AO-SLO) and SD-OCT to describe the life cycles of individual SDD."

sparser
"In the retina such a method could potentially enable a direct, non-invasive detection of PARP activity in vivo , with single-cell resolution, using techniques such adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) [ xref – xref ]."

sparser
"First introduced more than a decade ago [ xref ], offset aperture has essentially opened up a new type of tissue imaging which revealed retinal structures that had not been seen before in the confocal channel of adaptive-optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopes (AO-SLO)."

sparser
"In both MAORI and CAORI, the horizontal line in the SLO images is generated with a resonant scanner, as in typical AO-SLO systems."

sparser
"Traditionally, visualizing capillary structures has required high-resolution modalities equipped with adaptive optics (AO), such as AO-SLO or AO-OCT, for in vivo imaging."

sparser
"Using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO), mobile, ramified macrophage-like cells are detectable on the surface of the retina in human patients [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"In fact, a recent study using AO-SLO, which has poor axial resolution, tracked vitreoretinal interface macrophage cells and found that the majority of these cells traveled very short distances, staying within their niche [ xref ], suggestive of microglia properties in the parenchyma."

sparser
"Over the course of 25 years of progress in the field, there has been a proliferation of high-resolution AO retinal imaging modalities, including AO flood illuminated fundus photography [ xref ], AO-scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) [ xref ], and AO-optical coherence tomography (AO-OCT) [ xref , xref ]."

sparser
"Previous studies using AO-SLO xref and AO camera xref also showed that the blood pressure was strongly correlated with the WLR which is in keeping with our results."

sparser
"Arichika et al. reported that the HbA1c was positively correlated with the retinal artery wall thickness in diabetic patients without retinopathy using AO-SLO, suggesting the AO imaging can evaluate the microvascular damage in early phase."

sparser
"In a study using AO-scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO), “microfolds” (multiple thin, straight, hyporeflective lines in the photoreceptor layer) were identified in patients with ERM. xref However, the 3-dimensional association between ERM and cone photoreceptors cannot be observed because AO-SLO allows observation in a plane parallel to the retina."

sparser
"It could be performed at the hardware level using the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor and a digital deformable micromirror array in real-time, xref or at the computational level where the wavefront aberration sensing and correction are conducted offline. xref Cone photoreceptor cells have been imaged via their intrinsic reflectance using adaptive optics confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AO-SLO), but RGCs have proven more challenging to image due to their near transparency. xref "

sparser
"A recent study showed that AO-SLO can reveal structural defects in the RNFL that cannot be detected with OCT alone. xref "

sparser
"In the field of AO-SLO imaging, any static distortions are expected to be less obvious than modelled here (e.g. worst case in xref )."

sparser
"When combined with SLO, AO-SLO enables microglia within distinct retinal layers to be resolved in vivo ( xref )."

sparser
"The precision found on human eyes and the artificial eye is equal or better than any reported values in literature (0.0069 degrees on a DPI Gen5.5 with an non-moving artificial eye xref and 0.012 degrees on a human eye xref ; 0.0012 to 0.0045 on the EWET1 prototypes on human eyes xref ) without being affected by lens-wobble artifacts, such as in a DPI or distortion artifacts, such as in an AO-SLO system (no RMS-S2S values found for AO-SLO in literature)."

sparser
"Miller et al. demonstrated that AO-SLO can be used to quantify the 3D distribution, morphology and dynamism of microglia within individual layers of the Cx3cr1 GFP mouse retina ( xref )."

sparser
"Recently, Palochak et al. reported that the blood flow in eyes with DM without DR determined by AO-SLO was significantly higher than controls which contrasted with the significantly decrease in blood flow in eyes with NPDR xref ."

sparser
"Combined with microglia-specific fluorescent reporter mice, AO-SLO and AO-TPEFM imaging will be useful tools to examine in vivo longitudinal changes in microglia in retinal diseases."