Our aim is to establish a novel combined acousto-optical method for in vivo imaging
of the human retina with the two-photon microscope. In this paper we present modeling
results based on eye model samples constructed with parameters measured on patients.
We used effectively the potential of the electronic compensation offered by the acousto-optic
lenses to avoid the use of adaptive optical correction. Simulation predicted lateral
resolution between 1.6 microm and 3 microm on the retina. This technology allows the
visualization of single cells and promises real time measuring of neural activity
in individual neurons, neural segments and cell assemblies with 30-100 micros temporal
and subcellular spatial resolution.
