Systems and methods for ocular laser surgery and therapeutic treatments
AssigneeAce Vision Group, Inc.
InventorAnnMarie Hipsley
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Abstract
Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for laser microporation for rejuvenation of tissue of the eye, for example, regarding aging of connective tissue and rejuvenation of connective tissue by scleral rejuvenation. The systems, devices and methods disclosed herein restore physiological functions of the eye including restoring physiological accommodation or physiological pseudo-accommodation through natural physiological and biomechanical phenomena associated with natural accommodation of the eye. In some embodiments, the laser system may be configured to treat ocular tissue off axis or in a region of the eye which is distinct from the visual axis or directed away from the pupil of the eye where the gaze of the eye is.
Claims18
A system for delivering microporation medical treatments to biological tissue to improve biomechanics of an eye, the system comprising:
- a controller;
- a laser head system comprising:
- a housing,
- a laser subsystem for generating a beam of laser radiation on a treatment-axis not aligned with a patient's visual-axis, operable for use in subsurface ablative medical treatments to create a pattern of pores that improves biomechanics, and
- a lens operable to focus the beam of laser irradiation onto a target tissue;
- an eye tracking subsystem for tracking landmarks and movements of the eye;
- a depth control subsystem for controlling a depth of microporation on the target tissue;
- and
- wherein the controller is operable to control the movements of the laser subsystem including at least one of a pitch movement, a swivel movement and a yaw movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.