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Ryan McNabb

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology, Corneal Diseases
DUMC 3802, Durham, NC 27710
DUMC 2351 Erwin Rd., Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications


Deep compressed multichannel adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscope.

Journal Article Sci Adv · May 9, 2025 Adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) reveals individual retinal cells and their function, microvasculature, and micropathologies in vivo. As compared to the single-channel offset pinhole and two-channel split-detector nonconfocal AOSLO des ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mobile Robotic Optical Coherence Tomography System for Ophthalmic Imaging in Clinical Environments.

Journal Article Int Symp Med Robot · May 2025 Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an indispensable imaging modality for the diagnosis and management of many common eye diseases. We previously presented a fixed-base robotic OCT system to enable automated imaging and alleviate the necessity for restri ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sensor-driven digital motion correction of robotically-aligned optical coherence tomography retinal volumes.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · April 1, 2025 Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has revolutionized diagnostics in retinal ophthalmology. Traditional OCT requires minimal relative motion between the subject and scanner, which is difficult to achieve with handheld devices and/or non-stabilized subjects ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pupil wobble in point-scanning retinal optical coherence tomography systems.

Journal Article Opt Lett · March 15, 2025 Optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems utilize 2D scanning methods to acquire reflectance-based volumetric images of samples, such as the human retina, with micrometer-scale depth resolution. A common method for performing this scanning at high speeds ... Full text Link to item Cite

Robotics and optical coherence tomography: current works and future perspectives [Invited].

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · February 1, 2025 Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an interferometric technique for micron-level imaging in biological and non-biological contexts. As a non-invasive, non-ionizing, and video-rate imaging modality, OCT is widely used in biomedical and clinical applicati ... Full text Link to item Cite

New Directions for Ophthalmic OCT - Handhelds, Surgery, and Robotics.

Journal Article Transl Vis Sci Technol · January 2, 2025 The introduction of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in the 1990s revolutionized diagnostic ophthalmic imaging. Initially, OCT's role was primarily in the adult ambulatory ophthalmic clinics. Subsequent advances in handheld form factors, integration into ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving Artificial Intelligence-based Microbial Keratitis Screening Tools Constrained by Limited Data Using Synthetic Generation of Slit-Lamp Photos.

Journal Article Ophthalmol Sci · 2025 OBJECTIVE: We developed a novel slit-lamp photography (SLP) generative adversarial network (GAN) model using limited data to supplement and improve the performance of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based microbial keratitis (MK) screening model. DESIGN: C ... Full text Link to item Cite

Distortion-Corrected Posterior Ocular Shape in Myopic Eyes Assessed by Ultrawide OCT Detects Deformations Associated With Vision-Threatening Changes.

Journal Article Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci · November 4, 2024 PURPOSE: To develop a quantitative tool for assessing the posterior ocular shape using widefield, volumetric optical coherence tomography (OCT) in eyes with myopia. METHODS: This observational, cross-sectional study included 178 eyes from 113 participants. ... Full text Link to item Cite

RobOCTNet: Robotics and Deep Learning for Referable Posterior Segment Pathology Detection in an Emergency Department Population.

Journal Article Transl Vis Sci Technol · March 1, 2024 PURPOSE: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of a robotically aligned optical coherence tomography (RAOCT) system coupled with a deep learning model in detecting referable posterior segment pathology in OCT images of emergency department patients. METHO ... Full text Link to item Cite

NOVEL METHOD FOR VISUALIZING PERIPHERAL RETINAL STRUCTURES WITH MICROSCOPE-INTEGRATED OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY.

Journal Article Retin Cases Brief Rep · July 1, 2023 BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Visualization of peripheral retinal structures with optical coherence tomography (OCT) can be challenging but can offer valuable clinical information. We describe a method for intraoperative OCT of the peripheral retina. METHODS: An inv ... Full text Link to item Cite

Robotic Optical Coherence Tomography Retinal Imaging for Emergency Department Patients: A Pilot Study for Emergency Physicians' Diagnostic Performance.

Journal Article Ann Emerg Med · April 2023 STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of emergency physicians' interpretation of robotically acquired retinal optical coherence tomography images for detecting posterior eye abnormalities in patients seen in the emergency department (ED). ... Full text Link to item Cite

Robotic Optical Coherence Tomography of Human Subjects with Posture-Invariant Head and Eye Alignment in Six Degrees of Freedom.

Conference Int Symp Med Robot · April 2023 Ophthalmic optical coherence tomography (OCT) has achieved remarkable clinical success but remains sequestered in ophthalmology specialty offices. Recently introduced robotic OCT systems seek to expand patient access but fall short of their full potential ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dual modality handheld adaptive optics optical coherence tomography probe for in vivo 3-D photoreceptor imaging

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2023 Adaptive optics optical coherence tomography (AO-OCT) has allowed for the reliable 3-D imaging of individual retinal cells. The current AO-OCT systems are limited to tabletop implementation due to their size and complexity. This work describes the design a ... Full text Cite

Adaptive point-scan imaging beyond the frame rate-resolution limit with scene-reactive scan trajectories.

Journal Article Optica · November 20, 2022 Point-scanned imaging modalities, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), are subject to frame rate limits governed by image resolution, sampling rate, and scanner dynamics. For scenes with dynamic features on static backgrounds, adaptive scanning esca ... Full text Link to item Cite

Optical coherence tomography refraction and optical path length correction for image-guided corneal surgery.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · September 1, 2022 Optical coherence tomography (OCT) may be useful for guidance of ocular microsurgeries such as deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK), a form of corneal transplantation that requires delicate insertion of a needle into the stroma to approximately 90% o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Computational 3D microscopy with optical coherence refraction tomography.

Journal Article Optica · June 20, 2022 Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has seen widespread success as an in vivo clinical diagnostic 3D imaging modality, impacting areas including ophthalmology, cardiology, and gastroenterology. Despite its many advantages, such as high sensitivity, speed, a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Practice Patterns of Fundoscopic Examination for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Primary Care.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · June 1, 2022 IMPORTANCE: Primary care professionals (PCPs) have a central role in screening for diabetic retinopathy (DR), especially in settings where access to specialty eye care is limited. Data on current DR screening practice patterns in primary care are needed to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Autonomous Robotically Aligned OCT Enables Remote, Telehealth Retinal Imaging and Angiography

Conference Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science · June 1, 2022 Link to item Cite

Data from: Computational 3D microscopy with optical coherence refraction tomography

Dataset · April 12, 2022 This repository contains multi-angle volumetric OCT datasets for 3D OCRT reconstruction of four biological samples (zebrafish larva, fruit fly, mouse esophagus, and mouse trachea). The OCT volumes were captured using a custom spectral domain OCT system wit ... Full text Cite

Nonlinear distortion correction for posterior eye segment optical coherence tomography with application to tree shrews.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · February 1, 2022 We propose an empirical distortion correction approach for optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices that use a fan-scanning pattern to image the posterior eye segment. Two types of reference markers were used to empirically estimate the distortion correc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Robotically-Aligned Optical Coherence Tomography with Gaze Tracking for Live Image Montaging of the Retina

Conference Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · January 1, 2022 Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has revolutionized diagnostics in ophthalmology. However, it requires pa-tient cooperation to fixate on multiple targets and stabilize their head utilizing both chin and forehead rests. Patient cooperation is particularly ... Full text Cite

Head orientation-independent optical coherence tomography with a robotically-aligned scanner

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · 2022 Cite

High-speed multiview imaging approaching 4pi steradians using conic section mirrors: theoretical and practical considerations.

Journal Article J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis · December 2021 Illuminating or imaging samples from a broad angular range is essential in a wide variety of computational 3D imaging and resolution-enhancement techniques, such as optical projection tomography, optical diffraction tomography, synthetic aperture microscop ... Full text Link to item Cite

High-speed multiview imaging approaching 4pi steradians using conic section mirrors: theoretical and practical considerations

Journal Article Journal of the Optical Society of America A · December 1, 2021 Illuminating or imaging samples from a broad angular range is essential in a wide variety of computational 3D imaging and resolution-enhancement techniques, such as optical projection tomography, optical diffraction tomography, synthetic aperture m ... Full text Cite

Robotically aligned optical coherence tomography with 5 degree of freedom eye tracking for subject motion and gaze compensation.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · December 1, 2021 Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has revolutionized diagnostics in ophthalmology. However, OCT requires a trained operator and patient cooperation to carefully align a scanner with the subject's eye and orient it in such a way that it images a desired re ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ultrawide field, distortion-corrected ocular shape estimation with MHz optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · September 1, 2021 Ocular deformation may be associated with biomechanical alterations in the structures of the eye, especially the cornea and sclera in conditions such as keratoconus, congenital glaucoma, and pathological myopia. Here, we propose a method to estimate ocular ... Full text Link to item Cite

Contactless optical coherence tomography of the eyes of freestanding individuals with a robotic scanner.

Journal Article Nat Biomed Eng · July 2021 Clinical systems for optical coherence tomography (OCT) are used routinely to diagnose and monitor patients with a range of ocular diseases. They are large tabletop instruments operated by trained staff, and require mechanical stabilization of the head of ... Full text Link to item Cite

QUANTITATIVE TOPOGRAPHIC CURVATURE MAPS OF THE POSTERIOR EYE UTILIZING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY.

Journal Article Retina · April 1, 2021 PURPOSE: Deformations of the retina such as staphylomas in myopia or scleral flattening in high intracranial pressure can be challenging to quantify with en face imaging. We describe an optical coherence tomography-based method for the generation of quanti ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

In vivo quantitative analysis of anterior chamber white blood cell mixture composition using spectroscopic optical coherence tomography.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · April 1, 2021 Anterior uveitis is the most common form of intraocular inflammation, and one of its main signs is the presence of white blood cells (WBCs) in the anterior chamber (AC). Clinically, the true composition of cells can currently only be obtained using AC para ... Full text Link to item Cite

Autofocusing and Autoaligning Robotic Optical Coherence Tomography

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · 2021 Cite

Remote retinal imaging of patients from the ER using robotically aligned OCT

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · 2021 Cite

Multimodal handheld adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope.

Journal Article Opt Lett · September 1, 2020 Non-confocal adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) has enhanced the study of human retinal photoreceptors by providing complementary information to standard confocal AOSLO images. Previously we developed the first confocal handheld AOSLO (H ... Full text Link to item Cite

Topography and pachymetry maps for mouse corneas using optical coherence tomography.

Journal Article Exp Eye Res · January 2020 The majority of the eye's refractive power lies in the cornea, and pathological changes in its shape can affect vision. Small animal models offer an unparalleled degree of control over genetic and environmental factors that can help elucidate mechanisms of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Wavefront sensorless multimodal handheld adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope for in vivo imaging of human retinal cones

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2020 Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) has advanced the study of retinal structure and function by enabling in vivo imaging of individual photoreceptors. Most implementations of AOSLOs are large, complex tabletop systems, thereby preventing ... Full text Cite

Robotically Aligned OCT Imaging with Clinically Relevant Fields of View on the Retina

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · 2020 Cite

Mouse corneal transplant evaluation with topography and pachymetry using OCT

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · 2020 Cite

Detection of Retinal Detachment by ED Clinicians on OCT Images versus Fundus Photos

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · 2020 Cite

Empirical Distortion Correction for Posterior Segment SD-OCT Images in Small Animals

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · 2020 Cite

Robotically Aligned OCT for Subject Eye Translation and Rotation Compensation

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · 2020 Cite

Microscope-Integrated OCT-Based Topography Maps for Corneal Astigmatism Assessment

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · 2020 Cite

PPIP5K2 and PCSK1 are Candidate Genetic Contributors to Familial Keratoconus.

Journal Article Sci Rep · December 18, 2019 Keratoconus (KC) is the most common corneal ectatic disorder affecting >300,000 people in the US. KC normally has its onset in adolescence, progressively worsening through the third to fourth decades of life. KC patients report significant impaired vision- ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ocular anterior chamber blood cell population differentiation using spectroscopic optical coherence tomography.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · July 1, 2019 There is potential clinical significance in identifying cellular responses in the anterior chamber (AC) of the eye, which can indicate hyphema (an accumulation of red blood cells [RBCs]) or aberrant intraocular inflammation (an accumulation of white blood ... Full text Link to item Cite

True retinal topography: quantitative curvature maps of the retina using OCT

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · July 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

Curvature Differences in Myopic Eyes With and Without Staphyloma using OCT

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · July 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

Mouse corneal topography, pachymetry, and keratometry utilizing OCT with keratometer validation

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · July 1, 2019 Link to item Cite

Wide-field whole eye OCT system with demonstration of quantitative retinal curvature estimation.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · January 1, 2019 Current conventional clinical OCT systems image either only the anterior or the posterior eye during a single acquisition. This localized imaging limits conventional OCT's use for characterizing global ocular morphometry and biometry, which requires knowle ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Erratum: Asymmetric wide-field optical model of the human eye with tilted and decentered crystalline lens that reproduces experimentally measured aberrations(Optica, (2015), 2, 124, 10.1364/OPTICA.5.001461)

Journal Article Optica · November 20, 2018 This erratum corrects typographical errors that appeared in Table 1 of our earlier article [Optica 2, 124 (2015)]. In addition, the model dataset (“Wide-Field Eye Model”) is included as supplementary material. © 2018 Optical Society of America under the te ... Full text Cite

Constant linear velocity spiral scanning for near video rate 4D OCT ophthalmic and surgical imaging with isotropic transverse sampling.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · October 1, 2018 Ultrahigh speed optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems with >100 kHz A-scan rates can generate volumes rapidly with minimal motion artifacts and are well suited for 4D imaging (volumes through time) applications such as intra-operative imaging. In such ... Full text Link to item Cite

Volumetric Measurement of Subretinal Blebs Using Microscope-Integrated Optical Coherence Tomography.

Journal Article Transl Vis Sci Technol · April 2018 PURPOSE: We advance studies of subretinal treatments by developing a microscope-integrated optical coherence tomography (MIOCT) image-based method for measuring the volume of therapeutics delivered into the subretinal space. METHODS: A MIOCT image-based vo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Anterior chamber blood cell differentiation using spectroscopic optical coherence tomography

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2018 There is great clinical importance in identifying cellular responses in the anterior chamber (AC) which can indicate signs of hyphema (an accumulation of red blood cells (RBCs)) or aberrant intraocular inflammation (an accumulation of white blood cells (WB ... Full text Cite

Retinal imaging in human autopsy eyes using a custom optical coherence tomography periscope.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · September 1, 2017 Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of vision loss in the elderly. To better study the pathobiology of AMD, postmortem eyes offer an excellent opportunity to correlate optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging characteristics with hist ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ocular morphometry from wide-field, whole eye OCT compared to MRI and PCI

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · June 1, 2017 Link to item Cite

Segmentation guided registration of wide field-of-view retinal optical coherence tomography volumes.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · December 1, 2016 Patient motion artifacts are often visible in densely sampled or large wide field-of-view (FOV) retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) volumes. A popular strategy for reducing motion artifacts is to capture two orthogonally oriented volumetric scans. H ... Full text Link to item Cite

Wide field of view swept-source optical coherence tomography for peripheral retinal disease.

Journal Article Br J Ophthalmol · October 2016 Featured Publication BACKGROUND/AIMS: To assess peripheral retinal lesions and the posterior pole in single widefield optical coherence tomography (OCT) volumes. METHODS: A wide field of view (FOV) swept-source OCT (WFOV SSOCT) system was developed using a commercial swept-sou ... Full text Link to item Cite

Method for single illumination source combined optical coherence tomography and fluorescence imaging of fluorescently labeled ocular structures in transgenic mice.

Journal Article Exp Eye Res · October 2016 Featured Publication In vivo imaging permits longitudinal study of ocular disease processes in the same animal over time. Two different in vivo optical imaging modalities - optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fluorescence - provide important structural and cellular data res ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posterior Eye Shape Measurement With Retinal OCT Compared to MRI.

Journal Article Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci · July 1, 2016 Featured Publication PURPOSE: Posterior eye shape assessment by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to study myopia. We tested the hypothesis that optical coherence tomography (OCT), as an alternative, could measure posterior eye shape similarly to MRI. METHODS: Macular s ... Full text Link to item Cite

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Ultra wide-field swept-source optical coherence tomography for peripheral eye disease

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · June 1, 2015 Link to item Cite

Wide-field schematic model of the Human Eye with Asymmetrically Tilted and Decentered Lens

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · June 1, 2015 Link to item Cite

Optical coherence tomography accurately measures corneal power change from laser refractive surgery.

Journal Article Ophthalmology · April 2015 Featured Publication PURPOSE: To determine the ability of motion-corrected optical coherence tomography (OCT) to measure the corneal refractive power change due to LASIK. DESIGN: Evaluation of a diagnostic test or technology in a cohort. SUBJECTS: A total of 70 eyes from 37 su ... Full text Link to item Cite

Complete 360° circumferential gonioscopic optical coherence tomography imaging of the iridocorneal angle.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · April 1, 2015 Featured Publication Clinically, gonioscopy is used to provide en face views of the ocular angle. The angle has been imaged with optical coherence tomography (OCT) through the corneoscleral limbus but is currently unable to image the angle from within the ocular anterior chamb ... Full text Link to item Cite

Wide-field optical model of the human eye with asymmetrically tilted and decentered lens that reproduces measured ocular aberrations

Journal Article Optica · January 1, 2015 Featured Publication Eye models are valuable tools that can help delineate the role of anatomical parameters on visual performance and guide the design of advanced ophthalmic instrumentation. We propose an optically accurate wide-field schematic eye that reproduces the complet ... Full text Cite

Compressed Wavefront Aberrometry of the Human Eye

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · April 1, 2014 Link to item Cite

Single Source Fluorescence Imaging/Blue Optical Coherence Tomography in a GFP Mouse Model

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · April 1, 2014 Link to item Cite

Compressed wavefront sensing.

Journal Article Opt Lett · March 1, 2014 We report on an algorithm for fast wavefront sensing that incorporates sparse representation for the first time in practice. The partial derivatives of optical wavefronts were sampled sparsely with a Shack-Hartman wavefront sensor (SHWFS) by randomly subsa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Complete 360° circumferential SSOCT gonioscopy of the iridocorneal angle

Journal Article Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2014 The ocular iridocorneal angle is generally an optically inaccessible area when viewed directly through the cornea due to the high angle of incidence required and the large index of refraction difference between air and cornea (nair = 1.000 and n ... Full text Cite

Quantifying the cornea's optical performance

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Fast acquisition and reconstruction of optical coherence tomography images via sparse representation.

Journal Article IEEE Trans Med Imaging · November 2013 In this paper, we present a novel technique, based on compressive sensing principles, for reconstruction and enhancement of multi-dimensional image data. Our method is a major improvement and generalization of the multi-scale sparsity based tomographic den ... Full text Link to item Cite

Correction of ocular shape in retinal optical coherence tomography and effect on current clinical measures.

Journal Article Am J Ophthalmol · August 2013 PURPOSE: To address the misrepresentation of the eye in retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) images and to examine the effect of this misrepresentation on retinal thickness measurements. DESIGN: Prospective case series. METHODS: Five subjects with re ... Full text Link to item Cite

Handheld Combined SLO/OCT System

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · June 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

Quantitative single and multi-surface clinical corneal topography utilizing optical coherence tomography.

Journal Article Opt Lett · April 15, 2013 Featured Publication Successful surgical treatment of ocular astigmatism requires accurate characterization of both magnitude and axis of the astigmatism. Keratometry and topography are clinically widely used for this measurement; however, their analysis is limited to the ante ... Full text Link to item Cite

Distributed scan SDOCT improves post refractive surgery corneal biometry

Journal Article Biomedical Optics Biomed 2012 · December 1, 2012 We report on a preliminary study comparing corneal refractive power acquired using istributed scanning OCT (DSOCT) to corneal topography and Scheimpflug photography in normal subjects both before and after refractive surgery. © 2012. ... Cite

Distributed scan SDOCT improves post refractive surgery corneal biometry

Conference Digital Holography and Three Dimensional Imaging Dh 2012 · December 1, 2012 We report on a preliminary study comparing corneal refractive power acquired using distributed scanning OCT (DSOCT) to corneal topography and Scheimpflug photography in normal subjects both before and after refractive surgery. ... Cite

Distributed scanning volumetric SDOCT for motion corrected corneal biometry.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · September 1, 2012 We present a method, termed distributed scanning OCT (DSOCT), which reduces the effects of patient motion on corneal biometry utilizing current-generation clinically available spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) systems. We first performed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Corneal biometry from volumetric SDOCT and comparison with existing clinical modalities.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · June 1, 2012 We present a comparison of corneal biometric values from dense volumetric spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) scans to reference values in both phantoms and clinical subjects. We also present a new optically based "keratometric equivalent ... Full text Link to item Cite

Doppler velocity detection limitations in spectrometer-based versus swept-source optical coherence tomography.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · August 1, 2011 Featured Publication Recent advances in Doppler techniques have enabled high sensitivity imaging of biological flow to measure blood velocities and vascular perfusion. Here we compare spectrometer-based and wavelength-swept Doppler OCT implementations theoretically and experim ... Full text Link to item Cite

Robust automatic segmentation of corneal layer boundaries in SDOCT images using graph theory and dynamic programming.

Journal Article Biomed Opt Express · June 1, 2011 Segmentation of anatomical structures in corneal images is crucial for the diagnosis and study of anterior segment diseases. However, manual segmentation is a time-consuming and subjective process. This paper presents an automatic approach for segmenting c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Doppler velocity detection limitations in spectrometer and swept-source Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography

Journal Article Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · April 12, 2011 Recent advances in Doppler and variance techniques have enabled high sensitivity imaging in regions of biological flow to measure blood velocities and vascular perfusion. In recent years, the sensitivity and imaging speed benefits of Fourier domain OCT hav ... Full text Cite

Motion Artifact Reduced SDOCT of the Anterior Segment

Conference INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE · April 1, 2010 Link to item Cite

Piezoelectric scanning mirrors for endoscopic optical coherence tomography

Journal Article Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering · November 9, 2009 A novel piezoelectric scanning mirror design for endoscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT) is presented. OCT is an interferometric technique providing microscopic tomographic sectioning of biological samples with mm-range penetration capability in tiss ... Full text Cite

Advances in Whole-Eye Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging.

Journal Article Asia Pac J Ophthalmol (Phila) Contemporary anterior segment and retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems only image their particular designated region of the eye and cannot image both areas of the eye at the same time. This separation is due to the differences in optical syst ... Full text Link to item Cite