Patent ID: 7537340

Claim:
An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus comprising: a light source section for emitting a pulse light at predetermined timing; an illumination optical system for illuminating a retina of an eye under measurement, with the pulse light emitted from the light source section; an aberration compensation section for applying compensation to a light beam reflected from the retina so as to cancel out at least high-order aberrations, according to measured aberrations; an aberration measurement section for illuminating the eye under measurement, for receiving a light beam reflected from the eye under measurement when illuminated, through the aberration compensation section, and for measuring aberrations in the light beam reflected; a light-receiving section for receiving a light beam coming from the retina to form an image; and a light-receiving optical system for forming a retina image on the light-receiving section with a light beam of the light source section, which was reflected from the retina and of which aberrations have been compensated for by the aberration compensation section, wherein the light-receiving optical system comprises a variable-magnification section for changing the magnification of the retina image formed on the light-receiving section; the light-receiving optical system uses the variable-magnification section to be capable of switching at least between a high-magnification mode and a low-magnification mode; the light-receiving optical system is configured such that the mode is switched to the high-magnification mode when the aberrations measured by the aberration measurement section are equal to or smaller than aberrations determined in advance, and the mode is switched to the low-magnification mode when the aberrations measured by the aberration measurement section are larger than the aberrations determined in advance; and the light source section emits a plurality of pulse lights at each exposure timing when the light-receiving section is exposed to light a plurality of times and the light-receiving section obtains consecutive retina images.