Detail

Keywords

Diagnostic Imaging; Optical Devices; Optical Imaging; Retina; Tomography, Optical Coherence

Research group(s)

• Pircher Group
  Head: Michael Pircher
  Research Area: Adaptive optics optical coherence tomography, Retinal imaging, Corneal imaging, skin imaging.
  Members:
  Michael Pircher
  Elisabeth Brunner

Research interests

His scientific interest lies in retinal imaging, adaptive optics, new contrast techniques in optical coherence tomography, coherence microscopy.

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive optical imaging technique that records cross sectional images of biological tissue with high axial resolution. The combination of OCT with adaptive optics enables the visualization of cellular structures such as cone and rod photoreceptors in the human eye.

Selected publications

1. Shirazi, M.F. et al. (2022) ‘Multi-modal and multi-scale clinical retinal imaging system with pupil and retinal tracking’, Scientific Reports, 12(1). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13631-1.
2. Pircher, M., Hitzenberger, C.K. & Schmidt-Erfurth, U., 2011. Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography in the human eye. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, 30(6), pp.431-451. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.preteyeres.2011.06.003.
3. Felberer, F. et al., 2014. Adaptive optics SLO/OCT for 3D imaging of human photoreceptors in vivo. Biomedical Optics Express, 5(2), p.439. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/BOE.5.000439.
4. Brunner, E. et al. (2021) ‘Retinal adaptive optics imaging with a pyramid wavefront sensor’, Biomedical Optics Express, 12(10), p. 5969. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/boe.438915.
5. Pircher, M. & Zawadzki, R.J., 2017. Review of adaptive optics OCT (AO-OCT): principles and applications for retinal imaging [Invited]. Biomedical Optics Express, 8(5), p.2536. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/BOE.8.002536.