摘要:
A system for developing a course of refractive treatment for an eye, comprising: a corneal topography tool adapted to provide corner topography data of the eye; a wavefront aberration tool adapted to provide a wavefront aberration data of the eye; and a computational unit adapted to evaluate one of the data sets for patient suitability and to employ the other data set to develop a treatment profile.
摘要:
An eye tracking system for optical treatment is disclosed. The eye tracking system is provided with an iris image (206) such that an actual aim of an excimer laser can be adjusted on a dynamic basis relative to the position of the iris.
摘要:
An eye tracking system for optical treatment is disclosed. The eye tracking system is provided with an iris image (206) such that an actual aim of an excimer laser can be adjusted on a dynamic basis relative to the position of the iris.
摘要:
A apparatus and method for controlling an apparatus for removing tissue from the eye performs various types of corrections using a relatively large beam, but oscillating, or dithering, that being to prevent reinforcing ridges from being formed during the tissue removal process. Further, various types of correction, such as hyperopia and astigmatism correction, are performed using a large beam that is scanned over the area to be ablated using overlapping shots. Further, the epithelium in the area to be treated is removed using an infrared fluorescent dye to dye the epithelium, and then observing the fluorescent patterns from the epithelium area to be removed. Once a certain area is no longer fluorescent after laser shots, smaller shots are then applied, selectively removing the epithelium from the remaining regions. Again, the fluorescence patterns are observed, and the process is repeated until no epithelium remains. At this point, all of the epithelium is removed, and further a map is created of the initial epithelial thickness at each point in the area from which the epithelium was removed.
摘要:
A device readable medium for use in controlling a laser vision correction system includes a storage structure having stored therein a pre-programmed first, readable, corrective instruction reference that corresponds to an encoded customized corrective instruction determined by a calculation module external to the medium. The encoded customized corrective instruction is executable by a laser vision correction laser platform for correction of a refractive defect when the corrective instruction reference is properly recognized. A laser vision correction system including the device readable medium is described. A remunerative model relating to the device readable medium is disclosed.
摘要:
A system for developing a course of refractive treatment for an eye, comprising: a corneal topography tool adapted to provide corner topography data of the eye; a wavefront aberration tool adapted to provide a wavefront aberration data of the eye; and a computational unit adapted to evaluate one of the data sets for patient suitability and to employ the other data set to develop a treatment profile.
摘要:
An aperture card is provided for insertion into a laser refractive ablation system for use in laser ablating the cornea. The aperture card is designed for single surgical use for surgical precautionary considerations and to achieve the highest quality ablations, in addition to reproducibility. The aperture card is loaded into the laser refractive ablation system in a path between the laser system and the eye. The aperture card is precisely located by positioning means and ablative lasing action is inhibited if the card is not positioned within tolerance. Alternatively, the laser system can determine the position of the aperture card and adjust a computed ablation profile or otherwise adjust the optical system to adapt for any misalignment of the apertures in the aperture card. The card contains a 'soft spot' aperture capable of shaping a spatial intensity distribution with a unique profile. The profile has a substantially flat top while the sides of the profile slope until an ablation intensity threshold is reached, at which point the sides become substantially vertical. The card can contain more than one soft spot aperture along with a 'hard spot' aperture that creates a square-shaped profile used for testing fluence. Each soft spot aperture is formed by a central aperture and a plurality of holes of different sizes surrounding the central aperture and arranged such that the overall diffractive effect produces a soft spot spatial intensity profile compared to the hard, square-sided profile.
摘要:
A dual mode excimer laser eye surgery system is provided. The eye is first treated for primary corneal defects using a large, fixed spot size, and remaining irregularities are removed using a small fixed spot size. The large size allows for faster treatment, and the small size provided for more precision in the treatment of irregular topographies. The system is preferably implemented in a distributed topography environment. For example, a treatment pattern using a large, fixed spot size is provided to doctors based on visual acuity data, such as the degree of dioptric correction needed. The effect of this treatment is then overlaid on a computer against the patient's actual eye topography. The small fixed spot size is used to remove any remaining irregularities yielding a preferred treatment pattern. This combined treatment pattern is then distributed to an excimer laser eye surgery system that performs the large spot size ablation and then the small spot size ablation.
摘要:
A technique for determining accommodation range using a wavefront sensor. The technique comprises the steps of determining when the wavefront sensor goes into focus and adjusting the wavefront sensor until the wavefront sensor begins to go out of the focus. The technique further comprises the step of determining the accommodation range as the difference between the focal power of the sensor when the sensor goes into focus and the focal power of the sensor when the sensor begins to go out of the focus.