This document discusses several instruments used for imaging the retina:
1. Fundus camera uses similar optics to an indirect ophthalmoscope to illuminate the retina and capture images.
2. Scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) uses confocal scanning of a low-power laser beam to generate retinal images with less light than a fundus camera. Adaptive optics SLO can achieve very high-resolution images by correcting for aberrations in the eye's optics.
3. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) uses low-coherence interferometry to perform depth-resolved imaging of the retina, producing cross-sectional images. Fourier domain OCT provides faster imaging speeds and better resolution than early time domain