Ultrasound eye scanning device
AssigneeArcScan, Inc.
InventorsJohan E. Giphart, Andrew K. Levien, Tom Wilmering, Barry Schafer, John D. Watson
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus for an improved ultrasound eye scanning device wherein the size of the scan head is reduced significantly and the entire instrument can be placed on a desktop. The improved ultrasound eye scanning device also utilizes imaging goggles to enable better coupling between the patient and the instrument. The imaging goggles also allow both eyes of the patient to be scanned without the patient moving. Another innovation of the ultrasound imaging system according to the present disclosure is the use of the contralateral (opposite) eye for fixation and focusing during scanning.
Claims12
An ultrasound imaging system comprising:
- a scan head having a guide track and a carriage movable along the guide track;
- imaging goggles configured to maintain the eyes of a patient in a fixed location relative to the guide track;
- and
- an ultrasound transducer operatively connected to the carriage, wherein ultrasound pulses are emitted into an eye of the patient to generate an image of an ocular structure in the eye;
- and
- a fixation light;
- wherein:
- in a first operating mode in which a first eye of the patient is imaged by the ultrasound imaging system, the fixation light is viewable by a second eye of the patient, but not the first eye, during imaging;
- and
- in a different second operating mode in which the second eye of the patient is imaged by the ultrasound imaging system, the fixation light is viewable by the first eye, but not the second eye, during imaging.
An ultrasound imaging system comprising:
- a scan head having an arcuate guide track and a carriage movable along the arcuate guide track;
- imaging goggles configured to maintain the eyes of a patient in a fixed location relative to the arcuate guide track;
- an ultrasound transducer operatively connected to the carriage, wherein ultrasound pulses are emitted into an eye of the patient to generate an image of an ocular structure in the eye, and
- a fixation light, wherein:
- in a first operating mode in which a first eye of the patient is imaged by the ultrasound imaging system, the fixation light is viewable by a second eye of the patient, but not the first eye during imaging;
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- in a different second operating mode in which the second eye of the patient is imaged by the ultrasound imaging system, the fixation light is viewable by the first eye, but not the second eye, of the patient during imaging.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.