Systems and methods for providing anatomical flap centration for an ophthalmic laser treatment system
OwnerMichael F. Brownell, Kimberley N. Patterson +3inventors
InventorsMichael F. Brownell, Kimberley N. Patterson, Peter Patrick De Guzman, Victor J. Kardos, Hon M. Lee
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Abstract
Embodiments of this invention relate to systems and methods for providing anatomical flap centration for an ophthalmic laser treatment system. In one embodiment, the laser surgery system, having an imaging system and a suction ring coupled with a patient interface, captures a digital image of a subject's eye and identifies an optimum treatment placement of the corneal flap using anatomical markers as reference points.
Claims12
An ophthalmic surgical laser system for creating a corneal flap on a subject's eye, comprising:
- a laser delivery system;
- a suction ring configured to overlay an anterior surface of the subject's eye, the suction ring operatively coupled to a patient interface, wherein the patient interface is coupled to the laser delivery system;
- an imaging system operatively coupled to the laser delivery system and configured to capture a digital image of the subject's eye with the suction ring overlaying the anterior surface of the eye;
- a computer-readable medium having a set of instructions that, when executed by a processor, identifies an optimum location for creating the corneal flap, wherein the set of instructions comprise:
- identifying one or more anatomical reference points in digital image captured by the imaging system;
- calculating the location of the suction ring coupled to the patient interface relative to the reference points;
- and
- identifying a location on the cornea to create the flap based on the location of the suction ring coupled to the patient interface relative to the reference points on the cornea.
A process for creating a corneal flap on a subject's eye using an ophthalmic surgical laser system having an imaging system and a suction ring coupled to a patient interface, comprising the steps of:
- capturing an image of the subject's eye using the imaging system;
- identifying one or more anatomical reference points in the captured image;
- applying the suction ring coupled to the patient interface to the subject's eye;
- calculating the location of the suction ring coupled to the patient interface relative to the reference points;
- and
- identifying a location on the cornea to create the flap based on the location of the suction ring coupled to the patient interface relative to the reference points on the cornea.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.