Patent ID: 8649008

Claim:
A snapshot imaging spectrometer-polarimeter system for capturing simultaneous spectral and spatially colocalized polarization states from an image of ocular structure, the system comprising: one or more focal plane array detectors configured to detect light of one or more selected wavelength ranges; a fundus camera adapted to receive an image of ocular structure, and including a primary imaging lens and one or more collimating lenses configured along an optical path and to receive the image and focus the image on the one or more focal plane array detectors; a dispersive optical element configured along the optical path and to disperse the image in two dimensions; one or more polarizers configured along the optical path; one or more retarders configured along the optical path; an acquisition system configured to collect spectral and polarization data from the one or more focal plane array detectors; and a processing system operative to receive, from the acquisition system, data representing an image of the ocular structure and to calibrate the image for deleterious optical effects of biological optical media represented within the image.