Patent ID: 8770751

Claim:
A method of imaging a retina of an eye, comprising: combining an optical path of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) imager and an optical path of a line scanning laser ophthalmoscope (LSLO) imager using a system of optics, the system of optics is disposed in a housing capable of operating in a LSLO mode and an OCT mode, the system of optics including: a first source to provide a first beam of light for the OCT imager, a second source to provide a second beam of light for the LSLO imager, and a first optic that: in the OCT mode, (i) scans, using a first surface of the first optic, the first beam of light along a retina of an eye in a first dimension, and (ii) descans, using the first surface, a first light returning from the eye in the first dimension to the single detector, and in the LSLO mode, (i) passes, through a second surface of the first optic, the second beam of light to the retina of the eye; switching between the OCT mode and the LSLO mode; using a single detector to image in both the OCT mode and the LSLO mode depending on which mode is selected; and acquiring images in both the OCT mode and the LSLO mode depending upon which mode is selected.