Spatial light modulation targeting of therapeutic lasers for treatment of ophthalmological conditions
AssigneePulsemedica Corp.
InventorsNir Katchinskiy, Abdulhakem Elezzabi
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Abstract
Systems and methods for analyzing pathologies utilizing quantitative imaging are presented herein. Advantageously, the systems and methods of the present disclosure utilize a hierarchical analytics framework that identifies and quantify biological properties/analytes from imaging data and then identifies and characterizes one or more pathologies based on the quantified biological properties/analytes. This hierarchical approach of using imaging to examine underlying biology as an intermediary to assessing pathology provides many analytic and processing advantages over systems and methods that are configured to directly determine and characterize pathology from underlying imaging data.
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A therapeutic laser delivery system for ophthalmology comprising:
- an imaging system comprising at least one of:
- a scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) system comprising a SLO detector and a SLO light source, wherein the SLO light source is configured to generate light for passing from the SLO light source through an SLO optical pathway for SLO imaging, or an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system comprising an OCT detector and an OCT light source, wherein the OCT light source is configured to generate light for passing from the OCT light source through an OCT optical pathway for OCT imaging;
- a therapeutic laser configured to generate a therapeutic laser light for passing through a therapeutic laser delivery optical path and delivering at least a portion of the therapeutic laser light to an ophthalmological target;
- a spatial light modulator (SLM) device arranged in the therapeutic laser delivery optical path to modulate the therapeutic laser light;
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- at least one processor for controlling the SLM device to modulate the therapeutic laser light for treatment of floaters in a vitreous humour of the ophthalmological target,
- wherein the SLM device is configured to control one or more characteristics of the therapeutic laser light, the one or more characteristics comprising at least one of:
- a wavefront helicity and an orbital angular momentum order,
- and wherein the SLM device is further configured to generate non-diffractive light beams.
A method of treating floaters in a vitreous humour of an eye using a therapeutic laser delivery system, the method comprising:
- capturing, using an imaging system, one or more images of the eye, wherein the imaging system comprises at least one of a scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) system or an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system;
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- controlling a spatial light modulator (SLM) device to modulate therapeutic laser light for treatment of the floaters,
- wherein the SLM device controls one or more characteristics of the therapeutic laser light, the one or more characteristics comprising at least one of:
- a wavefront helicity and an orbital angular momentum order,
- and wherein the SLM device generates non-diffractive light beams.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.