Patent ID: 8616703

Claim:
A method for measuring an optical point spread function (PSF) of a patient's eye, the method comprising: (a) detecting wavefront aberrations in the eye, using a detector; (b) performing a first pass using a large pupil size, the first pass comprising: (i) determining an appropriate correction to be applied to a wavefront correcting device that uses adaptive optics; and (ii) focusing light from a light source into a point source on the retina of the patient's eye by controlling the wavefront correcting device in accordance with the wavefront aberrations detected in step (a) and the appropriate correction determined in step (b)(i); (c) performing a second pass using a second pupil size that is larger than or equal to the first pupil size, the second pass comprising: (i) splitting the light reflected from the retina before the adaptive optics to capture the PSF with effects from aberration and scatter; and (ii) splitting the light reflected from the retina after the adaptive optics to capture the PSF with the aberration corrected by the adaptive optics; (d) deriving the optical PSF of the eye from PSF captured in steps (c)(i) and (c)(ii); and e) computing the optical transfer function comprising modulation and phase transfer functions from the optical PSF in step (d).