About the Authors

Ramkumar Sabesan

rsabesan@uw.edu

Affiliation School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Heidi Hofer

Current address: Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation College of Optometry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Austin Roorda

Affiliation School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Roorda has two patents on technology related to the Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope. These are: USPTO #7,118,216 Method and apparatus for using adaptive optics in a scanning laser ophthalmoscope and USPTO #6,890,076 Method and apparatus for using adaptive optics in a scanning laser ophthalmoscope. These patents are assigned to both the University of Rochester and the University of Houston. The patents are currently licensed to Canon, Inc. Japan. Both Roorda and the company may benefit financially from the publication of this research. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS AR. Performed the experiments: RS. Analyzed the data: RS AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS HH AR. Wrote the paper: RS HH AR.