Patent ID: 8488895

Claim:
A digital retinal imaging device comprising: an illumination source operable to produce a source beam, wherein the source beam defines an illumination pathway; an optical element situated within the illumination pathway, the optical element operable to focus the illumination pathway into an illumination slit at a plane conjugate to the target, wherein the illumination slit is slit shaped; a shaping mechanism positioned within the illumination pathway, wherein the shaping mechanism shapes the source beam into at least one arc at a plane conjugate to a pupil; a scanning mechanism operable to cause a scanning motion of the illumination pathway in one dimension with respect to a target; and a first two dimensional detector array operable to detect illumination returning from the target and acquire one or more data sets from the detected illumination, wherein the returning illumination defines a detection pathway; wherein the digital retinal imaging device is operable to minimize at least one aberration from the optical element or an unwanted reflection from the target or a reflection from a device.