Methods and systems for eye illumination
AssigneeAlcon Inc.
InventorNiels Alexander Abt
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Abstract
Projection of visible, non-treatment light onto an eye to illuminate specific areas of the surgical field is disclosed herein. A surgical system may include a surgical console; a microscope communicatively coupled to the surgical console; a camera communicatively coupled to the surgical console; and a projector operable to project light onto an eye. The projector may be communicatively coupled to the surgical console. A method for light projection may include collecting information from an eye using a camera; determining the light projection based, at least in part, on the collected information; and projecting visible, non-treatment light onto the eye using a projector.
Claims9
A surgical system for projecting illumination onto an eye comprising:
- a microscope;
- a camera communicatively coupled to surgical console, the camera operable to collect image data of an eye;
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- the surgical console communicatively coupled to the camera, the surgical console operable to receive the image data, the surgical console comprising:
- a processor;
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- a memory, the memory comprising code executable by the processor and the processor operable to process the image data in a manner defined by the code to identify one or more eye features suitable for a glaucoma flap procedure;
- a projector communicatively coupled to the surgical console and operable to project visible, non-treatment light onto a surface of an eye, the projected light being in the form of one or more discrete light projections directed to one or more particular locations of the eye suitable for a glaucoma flap procedure based on the received image data while not illuminating a pupil of the eye or an area of the eye not applicable to the glaucoma flap procedure.
A method of projecting light onto an eye comprising:
- collecting image data of an eye using a camera;
- determining one or more discrete locations on the eye suitable for a glaucoma flap procedure to be illuminated with projected visible, non-treatment light, the one or more discrete locations determined, at least in part, from the collected image data;
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- projecting the visible, non-treatment light onto the one or more discrete locations of the eye suitable for a glaucoma flap procedure using a projector while not illuminating a pupil of the eye or an area of the eye not applicable to the glaucoma flap procedure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.