US 9,808,155 B2Granted

Apparatus to detect amyloid in a patient user's retina in a diagnosis, advancement and prognosis of alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, macular degeneration and a plurality of neurodegenerative disorders and ocular diseases

AssigneeNeuroVision Imaging LLC

InventorSteven Roger Verdooner

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Abstract

An eye imaging apparatus to produce an image of an eye of a patient user is disclosed. The eye imaging apparatus may include a video camera, a slit lamp chinrest, a camera housing, a plurality of illumination source optics and a processing system. The eye imaging apparatus may also include a video camera, a plurality of video camera optics, a camera housing, a microscope assembly, a plurality of illumination source optics and a floor base. The eye imaging apparatus may be utilized in combination with one or more contrasting agents. The eye imaging apparatus may detect amyloid-beta plaque, amyloid or amyloid-beta peptide by a spectral signature.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An eye imaging apparatus, comprising:

a digital video camera having a plurality of video camera optics, wherein the digital video camera records an image of an amyloid-beta plaque, an amyloid or an amyloid-beta peptide in a patient user's eye or in a patient user's brain;
a slit lamp chinrest adapted to hold a patient user's chin and forehead in a fixed position, the slit lamp chinrest includes a head support, a movable base, a joystick and a housing support;
a camera assembly having a camera housing, the digital video camera, a plurality of observation optics and a lamp;
a plurality of illumination source optics controlling focus and resolution of the camera housing;
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a processing system having a memory system and an observation video monitor, the observation video monitor having high-resolution color graphics capability to display the patient user's eye image or the patient user's brain image to be analyzed, the processing system also having a digitizing board to collect video and digital data and images from the digital video camera instantly and store the collected video and digital data and images into digital data in the memory system and the collected video and digital data and images are available to the processing system to analyze.

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Facts

Application: 14/191,401Filed 26 Feb 2014 · continuation in part
Priority: 25 Oct 2010
Published: US 2014/0176908 A126 Jun 2014
Granted: 7 Nov 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A61B 3/13
Objective types, i.e. instruments for examining the eyes independent of the patients' perceptions or reactions: ophthalmic microscopes
A61B 3/10
Apparatus for testing the eyes; Instruments for examining the eyes: objective types, i.e. instruments for examining the eyes independent of the…
A61B 3/102
Objective types, i.e. instruments for examining the eyes independent of the patients' perceptions or reactions: for optical coherence tomography [OCT]
A61B 5/0042
Adapted for image acquisition of a particular organ or body part: for the brain

Family

Application61/406,551Us provisional application · filed 25 Oct 2010
Application13/280,161Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 24 Oct 2011
US 2014/0176908 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Jun 2014
US 2012/0101371 A1Published application
US 9,808,155 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.