Visualization and treatment of media opacity in eye

A system for treating a media opacity in a vitreous media of an eye, the system comprising:

• a visualization module adapted to provide visualization data of a portion of the eye via one or more viewing beams;
• a laser module adapted to selectively generate a treatment beam directed towards the media opacity in order to disrupt the media opacity;
• wherein the laser module and the visualization module have a shared aperture for guiding the treatment beam and the one or more viewing beams towards the eye, the shared aperture being centered about a central axis;
• a controller in communication with the visualization module and the laser module, the controller having a processor and a tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded;
• and
• wherein execution of the instructions by the processor causes the controller to acquire one or more defining parameters of the media opacity based at least partially on the visualization data, the one or more defining parameters including a shape and a size of the media opacity;
• and
• wherein the controller is further configured to:
• prior to acquiring the one or more defining parameters of the media opacity, define a predefined target zone of a real-time viewing window of the visualization module, the predefined target zone being smaller than the real-time viewing window;
• determine when a threshold portion of the media opacity has not moved from the predefined target zone based at least partially on the one or more defining parameters;
• and
• in response to determining when a threshold portion of the media opacity has not moved from a predefined target zone, direct the treatment beam towards the media opacity in the predefined target zone.