High-resolution retinal matrix imaging via computational motion and aberration correction
Abstract
High-resolution optical imaging of the human retina is essential for diagnosing ophthalmic and neurodegenerative diseases. While adaptive optics combined with coherence gating can resolve retinal structures at the cellular scale, it requires complex, costly, and cumbersome hardware to physically correct for ocular aberrations and motion. Matrix imaging offers a powerful digital alternative by leveraging wave linearity to undo aberrations and multiple scattering; however, its in vivo deployment has been hindered by continuous, involuntary eye movements that destroy phase coherence during acquisition. Here, we overcome this fundamental barrier and demonstrate the first in vivo reflection matrix imaging of the human retina using an ultra-simplified optical setup without physical correctors. We introduce a fully computational framework that tracks and compensates for multi-axial ocular motion directly from raw interferometric data, thereby restoring the phase coherence of a multi-spectral distortion matrix. This enables local, high-order aberration correction to achieve diffraction-limited, volumetric imaging of retinal tissues. By shifting the hardware burden to physics-guided numerical computation, this paradigm opens the way for accessible, non-invasive, and high-resolution digital ophthalmology.
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BibTeX
@misc{melt2026highresolution,
title = {{High-resolution retinal matrix imaging via computational motion and aberration correction}},
author = {Aymeric Melt and Léo Puyo and Victor Barolle and Claude Boccara and Gereon Hüttmann and Alexandre Aubry},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.19245},
eprint = {2610.19245},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19245},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - High-resolution retinal matrix imaging via computational motion and aberration correction
AU - Aymeric Melt
AU - Léo Puyo
AU - Victor Barolle
AU - Claude Boccara
AU - Gereon Hüttmann
AU - Alexandre Aubry
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.19245
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.19245
AB - High-resolution optical imaging of the human retina is essential for diagnosing ophthalmic and neurodegenerative diseases. While adaptive optics combined with coherence gating can resolve retinal structures at the cellular scale, it requires complex, costly, and cumbersome hardware to physically correct for ocular aberrations and motion. Matrix imaging offers a powerful digital alternative by leveraging wave linearity to undo aberrations and multiple scattering; however, its in vivo deployment has been hindered by continuous, involuntary eye movements that destroy phase coherence during acquisition. Here, we overcome this fundamental barrier and demonstrate the first in vivo reflection matrix imaging of the human retina using an ultra-simplified optical setup without physical correctors. We introduce a fully computational framework that tracks and compensates for multi-axial ocular motion directly from raw interferometric data, thereby restoring the phase coherence of a multi-spectral distortion matrix. This enables local, high-order aberration correction to achieve diffraction-limited, volumetric imaging of retinal tissues. By shifting the hardware burden to physics-guided numerical computation, this paradigm opens the way for accessible, non-invasive, and high-resolution digital ophthalmology.
ER -