Biomedical Optics
Adaptive optics imaging, ocular coherence tomography, geometric and clinical optics and advanced microscopy are areas within biomedical optics that are being studied at the UAB School of Optometry.
Featured Research
Using OCT to Study Retinal Degeneration in Mice
In a recent study, Steven J. Pittler, PhD, examined rod cell proteins GARP1 and GARP2 to learn how they function in retinal degeneration, using optical coherence tomography, or OCT. First, Pittler and fellow UAB researcher Marci DeRamus, PhD, carefully aligned mouse OCT imaging with mouse microscopic histologic imaging to propose the uniform mouse OCT nomenclature, which they adopted in their experiments.
