LASER CATARACT SURGERY USING SPIRAL LENS SEGMENTATION PATTERN

    公开(公告)号:US20230255829A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-17

    申请号:US18151399

    申请日:2023-01-06

    Inventor: Javier Gonzalez

    CPC classification number: A61F9/00814 A61F2009/00887 A61F2009/00897

    Abstract: In a cataract procedure, a new geometry of a lens segmentation pattern reduces the required phacoemulsification energy to remove the lens. The lens segmentation process employs a three-dimensional spiral lens segmentation pattern that resembles a spiral staircase or a spiral ramp, to incise a vertical cylindrical volume of the lens into a three-dimensional spiral that can be more easily removed. The segmentation patter is formed by scanning the laser focal spot in a layer by layer manner, each layer including a closed curve corresponding to the outer boundary of the segmentation volume, and a filled area inside the closed curve forming a horizontal step of the spiral staircase. The horizontal steps of vertically adjacent layers are offset by an offset angle, creating the spiral lens segmentation pattern that form a spiral volume.

    Image processing method and system for edge detection and laser eye surgery system incorporating the same

    公开(公告)号:US11291361B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-05

    申请号:US16724019

    申请日:2019-12-20

    Inventor: Javier Gonzalez

    Abstract: A method of imaging an object includes obtaining an image data set from a raster scan. The image data set has a plurality of data points, each data point having an associated location and intensity; generating a reduced data set by selectively removing one or more data points from the image data set based upon an assigned probability of retaining the one or more data points in the data set, the assigned probability being a function of the intensity of a data point; generating a triangulation graph as a planar subdivision having faces that are triangles, the vertices of which are the data points and the edges of which are adjacent vertices; and segmenting the triangulated data set by finding a path with lowest cost between that vertex and every other vertex, wherein the cost is a function of the respective intensity of the vertices.

    IRIS REGISTRATION METHOD IN CATARACT SURGERY FOR ASTIGMATIC MANAGEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20250113996A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-10

    申请号:US18908636

    申请日:2024-10-07

    Abstract: A method implemented in an ophthalmic laser system to perform iris registration based on two iris images taken with the patient at upright and supine positions, respectively. For each iris image, the iris region is transformed into a rectangular rubbersheet, with the radial and angular coordinates of the iris image respectively mapped to vertical and horizontal coordinates of the rubbersheet. A horizontal one-dimensional log-Gabor transform is applied to the rubbersheet line-by-line. The transformed rubbersheet is binarized line-by-line. The two binary rubbersheets are compared at a series of relative horizontal shifts to determine the horizontal shift value that produces the lowest Hamming distance between the two binary rubbersheets, and the cyclotorsion rotation of the eye between the upright and supine positions is calculated accordingly. Then, while the patient is in the supine position, the laser system treats the eye based on measured astigmatism axis orientation and the calculated cyclotorsion rotation.

    IRIS REGISTRATION METHOD FOR OPHTHALMIC LASER SURGICAL PROCEDURES

    公开(公告)号:US20230149215A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-18

    申请号:US18154840

    申请日:2023-01-15

    Inventor: Javier Gonzalez

    CPC classification number: A61F9/008 G16H30/40 G06T3/4084 A61F2009/00876

    Abstract: In a laser cataract procedure that also corrects for astigmatism, an iris registration method compares an iris image of a patient's eye taken when the eye is not docked to a patient interface device with an iris image of the same eye that is docked to the patient interface, to calculate a rotation angle between the two images. The astigmatism axis of the eye is measured when the eye is not docked, and the measured axis is rotated by the calculated rotation angle to obtain a rotated astigmatism axis relative to the iris image of the docked eye. The laser cataract procedure is performed based on the rotated astigmatism axis. The rotation angle is calculated by optimizing a transformation that transforms the undocked iris image to match the docked iris image, where the transformation includes a dilation factor that accounts for different pupil dilation of the two iris images.

    CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY MEASUREMENT AND ALIGNMENT OF CORNEAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES

    公开(公告)号:US20220387219A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-08

    申请号:US17820848

    申请日:2022-08-18

    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are configures to measure an eye without contacting the eye with a patient interface, and these measurements are used to determine alignment and placement of the incisions when the patient interface contacts the eye. The pre-contact locations of one or more structures of the eye can be used to determine corresponding post-contact locations of the one or more optical structures of the eye when the patient interface has contacted the eye, such that the laser incisions are placed at locations that promote normal vision of the eye. The incisions are positioned in relation to the pre-contact optical structures of the eye, such as an astigmatic treatment axis, nodal points of the eye, and visual axis of the eye.

    Laser eye surgery system calibration

    公开(公告)号:US11051983B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-06

    申请号:US16377760

    申请日:2019-04-08

    Abstract: A laser system is calibrated with a tomography system capable of measuring locations of structure within an optically transmissive material such as a tissue of an eye. Alternatively or in combination, the tomography system can be used to track the location of the eye and adjust the treatment in response to one or more of the location or an orientation of the eye. In many embodiments, in situ calibration and tracking of an optically transmissive tissue structure such as an eye can be provided. The optically transmissive material may comprise one or more optically transmissive structures of the eye, or a non-ocular optically transmissive material such as a calibration gel in a container or an optically transmissive material of a machined part.

    Laser eye surgery system calibration

    公开(公告)号:US12178752B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-31

    申请号:US17305037

    申请日:2021-06-29

    Abstract: A laser system is calibrated with a tomography system capable of measuring locations of structure within an optically transmissive material such as a tissue of an eye. Alternatively or in combination, the tomography system can be used to track the location of the eye and adjust the treatment in response to one or more of the location or an orientation of the eye. In many embodiments, in situ calibration and tracking of an optically transmissive tissue structure such as an eye can be provided. The optically transmissive material may comprise one or more optically transmissive structures of the eye, or a non-ocular optically transmissive material such as a calibration gel in a container or an optically transmissive material of a machined part.

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