Error Budget Analysis for an Adaptive Optics Optical Coherence Tomography System

The combination of adaptive optics (AO) technology with optical coherence tomography (OCT) instrumentation for imaging the retina has
proven to be a valuable tool for clinicians and researchers in understanding the healthy and diseased eye. The micrometer-isotropic resolution achieved
by such a system allows imaging of the retina at a cellular level, however
imaging of some cell types remains elusive. Improvement in contrast rather
than resolution is needed and can be achieved through better AO correction
of wavefront aberration. A common tool for assessing and ultimately
improving AO system performance is the development of an error budget.
Specifically, this is ...
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