Acompactlinescanningquasi-confocalophthalmoscope(LSO)ispresentedinthisletter.Comparedwithaconventionalscanninglaserophthalmoscope(SLO),thebench-topLSOsignificantlyreducesthesize,complexity,andcostofSLOutilitywithroutineuse.TheLSOusesonemovingparttoproducehigh-contrastandhigh-resolutionquasi-confocalimageswithnearlythesameperformanceasaSLO.TheLSOhasamoderatefieldofview(～10),whichenablesimagesofthemacula,theopticnervehead,andothertargetstobeobtainedmorequicklyandefficiently.Animageoftheopticnerveheadistakeninapreliminaryinvestigationonhumansubjects.Inpidualnervefiberbundlesandvesselsareresolvedatashallowdepth,withalateralresolutionofnearly10μm.
