Portable self-retinal imaging device

A method of imaging a retina of an eye with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope, the method comprising:

• generating laser illumination;
• scanning the laser illumination about a scan point at the eye using a two-dimensional MEMS scanning minor to produce a two-dimensional area of illumination that illuminates the retina of the eye;
• intercepting optical radiation reflected from the eye;
• acquiring a first image of the eye from the optical radiation;
• analyzing the first image of the eye to identify features in the first image;
• and
• based on the features, automatically adjusting at least one of an alignment and a focus of optical components of the scanning laser ophthalmoscope to obtained a focused image of a selected region of the retina of the eye.

A method of imaging a retina of an eye with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope, the method comprising:

• generating a laser illumination beam;
• scanning the laser illumination beam about a scan point at the eye using a two-dimensional MEMS scanning mirror to produce a two-dimensional area of illumination that illuminates the retina of the eye;
• intercepting optical radiation reflected from the eye;
• and
• producing an image of retina from the optical radiation.