Patent ID: 7448752

Claim:
A system for examining, diagnosing and treating abnormalities in the human eye, said system comprising: an ophthalmic imaging instrument having an integral adaptive optical subsystem disposed along the optical axis therein, and wherein the optical axis of the ophthalmic instrument is aligned with an eye of a patient; a light source for illuminating the eye with light produced from said light source and enabling said adaptive optical subsystem to perform wavefront sensing and compensation operations; wherein said wavefront sensing and compensation operations are performed by said adaptive optical subsystem, and a phase-aligned image of the eye is captured by an image capture system, for use by a practitioner in examining, diagnosing and treating abnormalities in the eye; and wherein a graphical representation of high order aberrations of the eye measured by said adaptive optical subsystem is displayed as two-dimensional contour maps that graphically depict contribution of pre-specified terms for aberrations of the eye.