Roorda Austin
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
J Vis. 2011 Jun 16;11(7):6. doi: 10.1167/11.5.6.
Compared to most ophthalmic technologies, adaptive optics, or AO, is relatively young. The first working systems were presented in 1997 and, owing in part to its complexity, the development of AO systems has been relatively slow. Nevertheless, AO for vision science is coming of age and the scope of applications continues to increase. Applications of AO can be broadly split along two lines; for retinal imaging and for testing visual function. This review will focus on the applications of adaptive optics for testing visual function. Since this represents only a subset of the field of AO for ophthalmoscopy, it is possible to cite virtually every paper that has been published in the field to date. As such, this is a comprehensive review whose intent is to get all readers up to speed on the state of the art. More importantly, perhaps, this review will focus on the types of science that can be accomplished with AO with a view to future applications. The reference list alone is informative, since the reader will quickly discover that the community that is using AO for vision science is rather small. Looking at the dates for the cited papers, the reader will also discover that the field is rapidly expanding.
与大多数眼科技术相比，自适应光学（AO）相对年轻。首个实用系统于1997年问世，部分由于其复杂性，AO系统的发展相对缓慢。然而，用于视觉科学的AO正走向成熟，应用范围也在不断扩大。AO的应用大致可分为两类：用于视网膜成像和用于测试视觉功能。本综述将聚焦于自适应光学在测试视觉功能方面的应用。由于这仅代表眼科检查中AO领域的一个子集，几乎可以引用该领域迄今已发表的每一篇论文。因此，这是一篇全面的综述，旨在让所有读者跟上最新技术水平。也许更重要的是，本综述将关注借助AO能够开展的科学类型，着眼于未来应用。仅参考文献列表就很有信息量，因为读者很快会发现，将AO用于视觉科学的群体相当小。查看所引用论文的日期，读者还会发现该领域正在迅速扩展。
