Patent ID: 7665844

Claim:
A retinal imaging method, comprising: optically scanning in two dimensions the entrance pupil of an eye so that an area of one or more retinal structures of said eye can be individually imaged; detecting one or more high-order and large-stoke low-order optical aberrations from a predetermined said retinal structure resulting from scanning of said eye; providing at least two adaptive optical components, wherein at least one of said plurality of adaptive optical components is configured to correct for said one or more high order said optical aberrations and at least one of said adaptive optical components is configured to correct for said one or more large-stroke low order said optical aberrations; and feedback controlling in real time said at least two adaptive optical elements to compensate for said one or more high and said large-stroke low order optical aberrations in the light scanned on the area of said retinal structures so that the directed light is focused on desired said predetermined retinal structures of said eye and so that said one or more high and said large-stroke low order optical aberrations are corrected for imaging said one or more retinal structures of said eye.