Customized 3D printing lens design integrating visible-light optical coherence tomography

A system for additive manufacture of a customized ocular contact lens, the system comprising:

• a visible-light optical coherence tomography (vis-OCT) apparatus configured to perform vis-OCT on a cornea of a subject;
• an additive manufacturing apparatus configured to manufacture the customized ocular contact lens;
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• a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer implementable instructions executable by a processor in a computing device configured to:
• image and acquire image data of an outer surface of the cornea of the subject using the vis-OCT apparatus;
• process the image data to generate a 3-D computational model of the outer surface of the cornea based on the acquired image data;
• determine a posterior surface of the customized ocular contact lens using the 3-D computational model;
• determine an anterior surface of the customized ocular contact lens to provide a selected optical power to the customized ocular contact lens;
• generate a 3-D printable data set of the customized ocular contact lens comprising the determined posterior surface and the determined anterior surface;
• manufacture the customized ocular contact lens based on the 3-D printable data set of the customized ocular contact lens using the additive manufacturing apparatus;
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• verify a shape of the manufactured customized ocular contact lens using the visible-light optical coherency tomography apparatus to image the anterior surface and the posterior surface of the manufactured customized ocular contact lens.