Professor, Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Medical Director, Fundus Photograph Reading Center (FPRC)
McPherson Eye Research Institute
Madison, WI

Dr. Blodi’s Research Project
Adaptive Optics Imaging of Human Retinal Function

Research Interests
Dr. Blodi is a retina specialist and one of the leaders of WAIVS (Wisconsin Advanced Imaging of Visual Systems), a newly established initiative to develop novel imaging systems of the visual pathway. The first WAIVS imaging system under development is Adaptive Optics, an imaging modality that is able to image individual photoreceptors in the human retina. In order to build this complex Adaptive Optics instrument, the WAIVS research group includes experts in retinal imaging, biomedical engineering, optics, physics and software development. Dr. Blodi is developing a standardized Adaptive Optics imaging protocol for human subjects in order to provide researchers well-defined guidelines in the acquisition and analysis of images.