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High-resolution images of the living retina are obtained by adaptively compensating for the wave aberration of the human eye. Adaptive optics allows correction for not only defocus and astigmatism, but also coma, spherical aberration, and higher order aberrations in the human eye.
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Liang, J., Williams, D.R., Miller, D.T. (1997). Imaging Photoreceptors in the Living Eye with Adaptive Optics. In: Lakshminarayanan, V. (eds) Basic and Clinical Applications of Vision Science. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5698-1_3
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