Oxyopia Abstract

January 23, 2004
Friday, 4 PM
489 Minor Hall

Austin Roorda, PhD
University of Houston College of Optometry
Host: Christine Wildsoet

Title

"Understanding and Overcoming the Optical Limits of the Eye"

Abstract

In the last decade, advances in our ability to measure ocular aberrations have catalyzed a renewed interest in ocular optics and have enabled a host of new ophthalmic technologies. For vision, these technologies are aimed at improving vision through reduction or manipulation of the ocular aberrations. For ophthalmoscopy, the technology of adaptive optics has facilitated microscopic imaging in living eyes, and holds the potential for microperimetry and microsurgery on the scale of single cone photoreceptors. In either case, the technology should lead to major advances in our understanding of vision and visual dysfunction. I will discuss the research with which I have been involved that bears on these issues with particular emphasis on my research on adaptive optics retinal imaging.