2026 Christoph K. Hitzenberger: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	87	2452	2330	15	15	433	31345

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Research.com Recognitions

2013 - OSA Fellows For pioneering contributions to biomedical optics, with a special emphasis on optical coherence tomography, ocular biometry and ocular imaging.
2013 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Christoph K. Hitzenberger is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Their research spans the fields of medicine and engineering, with a particular focus on ophthalmology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, biomedical engineering, epidemiology, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

Their work covers a range of topics within these fields, including:

Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
Retinal Diseases and Treatments
Retinal Imaging and Analysis
Glaucoma and Retinal Disorders
Corneal Surgery and Disorders
Retinal and Macular Surgery
Retinal and Optic Conditions

Christoph K. Hitzenberger has contributed extensively to the scientific literature with a number of recent papers published in notable journals. Selected works include:

"Visualizing human photoreceptor and retinal pigment epithelium cell mosaics in a single volume scan over an extended field of view with adaptive optics optical coherence tomography," 2020, Biomedical Optics Express
"Identification and quantification of fibrotic areas in the human retina using polarization-sensitive OCT," 2021, Biomedical Optics Express
"Baseline predictors for subretinal fibrosis in neovascular age-related macular degeneration," 2022, Scientific Reports
"Retinal adaptive optics imaging with a pyramid wavefront sensor," 2021, Biomedical Optics Express
"Generating large field of view en-face projection images from intra-acquisition motion compensated volumetric optical coherence tomography data," 2020, Biomedical Optics Express

Among publication venues frequently chosen are:

Biomedical Optics Express
Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Translational Vision Science & Technology
Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborations have been maintained with other researchers in the field, including:

Michael Pircher
Sylvia Desissaire
Florian Schwarzhans
Philipp Roberts
Clemens Vass

Christoph K. Hitzenberger has received recognition through awards such as:

SPIE Fellow, 2013
OSA Fellow, 2013, for pioneering contributions to biomedical optics, with a special emphasis on optical coherence tomography, ocular biometry and ocular imaging

Best Publications

Performance of fourier domain vs. time domain optical coherence tomography.

R. A. Leitgeb;C. K. Hitzenberger;Adolf F. Fercher

2736
Citations
Optical coherence tomography - principles and applications

A F Fercher;W Drexler;C K Hitzenberger;T Lasser

2709
Citations
Measurement of intraocular distances by backscattering spectral interferometry

A. F. Fercher;C. K. Hitzenberger;G. Kamp;S. Y. El-Zaiat

1927
Citations
In Vivo Optical Coherence Tomography

Adolf F. Fercher;Christoph K. Hitzenberger;Wolfgang Drexler;Gerhard Kamp

890
Citations
Partial Coherence Interferometry: A Novel Approach to Biometry in Cataract Surgery

Wolfgang Drexler;Oliver Findl;Rupert Menapace;Georg Rainer

722
Citations
Measurement and imaging of birefringence and optic axis orientation by phase resolved polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography

Christoph Hitzenberger;Erich Goetzinger;Markus Sticker;Michael Pircher

662
Citations
Spectral measurement of absorption by spectroscopic frequency-domain optical coherence tomography.

R. Leitgeb;M. Wojtkowski;A. Kowalczyk;C. K. Hitzenberger

525
Citations
Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography of dental structures.

A. Baumgartner;S. Dichtl;C.K. Hitzenberger;H. Sattmann

514
Citations
Optical Measurement of the Axial Eye Length by Laser Doppler Interferometry

Christoph K. Hitzenberger

467
Citations
Speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography by frequency compounding.

Michael Pircher;Erich Götzinger;Rainer A. Leitgeb;Adolf Friedrich Fercher

460
Citations
Improved prediction of intraocular lens power using partial coherence interferometry.

Oliver Findl;Wolfgang Drexler;Rupert Menapace;Harald Heinzl

439
Citations
Wavelength-tuning interferometry of intraocular distances.

F. Lexer;C. K. Hitzenberger;A. F. Fercher;M. Kulhavy

418
Citations
Phase-shifting algorithm to achieve high-speed long-depth-range probing by frequency-domain optical coherence tomography.

Rainer A. Leitgeb;Christoph K. Hitzenberger;Adolf F. Fercher;Tomasz Bajraszewski

412
Citations
Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography – a review [Invited]

Johannes F. de Boer;Christoph K. Hitzenberger;Yoshiaki Yasuno

406
Citations
Real-time measurement of in vitro flow by Fourier-domain color Doppler optical coherence tomography.

Rainer A. Leitgeb;Leopold Schmetterer;Christoph K. Hitzenberger;Adolf F. Fercher

373
Citations
Numerical dispersion compensation for Partial Coherence Interferometry and Optical Coherence Tomography.

Adolf F. Fercher;Christoph K. Hitzenberger;Markus Sticker;Robert Zawadzki

344
Citations
Retinal pigment epithelium segmentation by polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography.

Erich Götzinger;Michael Pircher;Wolfgang Geitzenauer;Christian Ahlers

338
Citations
Submicrometer Precision Biometry of the Anterior Segment of the Human Eye

Wolfgang Drexler;Angela Baumgartner;Oliver Findl;Christoph K. Hitzenberger

334
Citations
Biometric Investigation of Changes in the Anterior Eye Segment During Accommodation

Wolfgang Drexler;Angela Baumgartner;Oliver Findl;Christoph K. Hitzenberger

321
Citations
DISPERSION EFFECTS IN PARTIAL COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTRAOCULAR RANGING

Christoph K. Hitzenberger;Angela Baumgartner;Wolfgang Drexler;Adolf F. Fercher

319
Citations