Supernormal Vision: A focus on adaptive optics improves images of the eye and boosts vision

摘要

Anyone who grew up reading comic books may recall the advertisements that always graced the back pages, touting weird and wonderful gizmos designed to appeal to fun-loving youngsters. In one classic ad, a crew-cut boy sporting horn-rimmed "X-ray specs" stares gleefully at the bones in his hand. With the specs, the ad promised, mere mortals could acquire the super-vision of Superman.