Adaptive Optics – Sharpening Our Retinal Gaze
Episode Description
Discover how adaptive optics (AO) technology, borrowed from astronomy, corrects the eye's tiny imperfections in real-time. This allows for incredibly high-resolution imaging of individual retinal cells like cones and rods in a living eye.
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