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7618415 |
Beam steering system for corneal laser surgery
A device and method for steering a laser beam to a focal point in target tissue requires generating a laser beam. Diversions of the laser beam from a central beam path are minimized by a sequential...
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7611507 |
Disposable patient interface
A patient interface device adapted to provide an interface between a cornea and a surgical laser system. A frame has an applanation end and an attachment end which is adapted to couple to the...
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7582081 |
Systems and methods for corneal surface ablation to correct hyperopia
Systems, methods and apparatus for performing selective ablation of a corneal surface of an eye to effect a desired corneal shape, particularly for correcting a hyperopic/astigmatic condition by...
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7544194 |
Method of generating a control program for a device for photorefractive corneal surgery of the eye
In a method of generating a control program, according to which a laser-beam spot is guided, while being controlled with respect to position and time, over a cornea to be corrected...
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7503916 |
Integrated scanning and ocular tomography system and method
Systems and methods of the present invention measure at least one reflecting surface of an object disposed along an optical path. In some embodiments a measured optical interference signal for each...
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7479138 |
Laser pulse position monitor for scanned laser eye surgery systems
Devices, systems, and methods for measuring and determining positions of light energy having wavelengths of less than (as well as equal to or greater than) 200 nm, and are particularly well suited...
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7479136 |
Ophthalmic phototherapy treatment method
An ophthalmic phototherapy device ( 10 ) and associated phototherapy treatment method for promoting healing of damaged or diseased eye tissue. The ophthalmic phototherapy device ( 10 ) includes a...
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7456949 |
Methods and systems for laser calibration and eye tracker camera alignment
The present invention provides methods, systems, and apparatus for calibrating a laser ablation system, such as an excimer laser system for selectively ablating a cornea of a patient's eye. The...
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7419485 |
Corneal topography-based target warping system
Systems and methods for treating a tissue of an eye with a laser beam include at least one processor that determines angles between a curved surface and a laser beam, controlling an ablative...
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7413566 |
Training enhanced pseudo accommodation methods, systems and devices for mitigation of presbyopia
Devices, systems, and methods for developing prescriptions for and/or treating presbyopia may use a combination of an alteration to the refractive tissues of the eye with changes in the response of...
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7402159 |
System and method for positioning a patient for laser surgery
A system for positioning the eye of a patient, relative to a stationary surgical laser unit, includes a chair for moving the patient. An eye stabilizing element is held against the eye, with a...
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7371230 |
Ocular fixation and stabilization device for ophthalmic surgical applications
An interface for coupling an eye to a surgical laser is disclosed. A lens cone includes a base ring opposite an apex ring. The base ring defines a first plane and is adapted to couple to the...
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7364575 |
Apparatus and procedure for ultraviolet laser ablation
Apparatus for performing ultraviolet laser ablation of a surface, eg. an eye surface, including a laser delivery system ( 7 ) having a laser source ( 1 ) for generating a laser beam ( 2 ) and...
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7355695 |
Wavefront calibration analyzer and methods
A wavefront sensor enhances calibration of a laser ablation system, such as a laser eye surgery system, by measuring one or more characteristics of an ablated test surface. Typically, light is...
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7351241 |
Method and apparatus for precision working of material
A method for precise working of material, particularly organic tissue, comprises the step of providing laser pulses with a pulse length between 50 fs and 1 ps and with a pulse frequency from 50 kHz...
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RE40184 |
Refractive surgery and presbyopia correction using infrared and ultraviolet lasers
A method and surgical technique for corneal reshaping and for presbyopia correction are provided. The preferred embodiments of the system consists of a scanner, a beam spot controller and coupling...
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7331674 |
Calculating Zernike coefficients from Fourier coefficients
Systems, methods, and devices for determining an optical surface model for an optical tissue system of an eye are provided. Techniques include inputting a Fourier transform of optical data from the...
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7320685 |
Method and device for identifying an eye that is to be treated in operations
A method for identifying the site of an operation during an operation, in particular using a laser system, with the help of unique data about the operation site. A first copy of the unique data is...
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RE40002 |
Treatment of presbyopia and other eye disorders using a scanning laser system
Presbyopia is treated by a method which uses ablative lasers to ablate the sclera tissue and increase the accommodation of the ciliary body. Tissue bleeding is prevented by an ablative laser having...
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7311700 |
LASIK laminar flow system
A system that can be used to perform an ophthalmic procedure. The system may include a patient support that supports a patient and a light source which can direct a beam of light onto the patient's...
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7309126 |
Eye characteristics measuring device
A device for measuring eye characteristics, an operation device, and the coordinate origin and the coordinate axes of each eye are sufficiently related with one another. A measuring unit ( 111 )...
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7278990 |
Controlled ocular lens regeneration
A method for treating an ocular condition in a mammal includes removing an original lens to leave an empty lens capsule, filling the empty lens capsule with a gas to maintain capsule tension and...
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7278989 |
Method for analysis of an ablated surface, analysis on inconsistency in a laser beam, and calibration of laser beam irradiation data
A method and an apparatus for evaluating ablation conditions easily and for ablating a target object accurately. The method includes irradiating a reference object with a laser beam under laser...
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7275545 |
Methods and apparatus for presbyopia correction using ultraviolet and infrared lasers
Presbyopia is treated by a system using various lasers to remove a portion of the scleral tissue and increase the accommodation of the presbyopic patient's eye. Stable accommodation is achieved by...
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7258686 |
Corneal surgery apparatus
A corneal surgery apparatus capable of irradiating a laser beam at a desired position on a cornea more accurately. The apparatus has an optical system for irradiating a laser beam onto a cornea, a...
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7252662 |
Apparatus and processes for preventing or delaying one or more symptoms of presbyopia
The present invention generally relates to an apparatus and processes for preventing or delaying presbyopia. More particularly, the present invention relates to processes and apparatus for ablating...
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7252661 |
Method and system for patient optical fixation
A method and system for patient optical fixation are disclosed. One embodiment of the system comprises: a light source operable to provide a fixation light beam; a filter optically coupled to the...
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7244024 |
Eye target apparatus
An eye target apparatus and method helping to control an operative eye focus line of sight position during medical procedures on the operative eye of a cooperative awake patient. The apparatus...
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7238176 |
Method for intrastromal photodisruption of dome-shaped surfaces
A method is disclosed for photodisrupting a surface in the stroma of an eye at a substantially constant distance from the anterior surface of the eye. A frame of reference is established for the...
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7237898 |
Customized corneal profiling
A customized corneal profile is provided by combining corneal topography data with captured wavefront aberration data to form a course of refractive treatment of the eye. In one embodiment, the...
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7237894 |
Multifocal ophthalmic lens
This invention is generally related to vision corrections by means of multifocal ophthalmic lenses or by means of corneal refractive surgery. In particular, the present invention provides a...
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7232436 |
Closed loop control for intrastromal wavefront-guided ablation with fractionated treatment program
A closed-loop control system for altering the optical characteristics of a patient's cornea includes an algorithm for predicting the shape of the cornea after one or more gas bubbles resulting from...
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7226443 |
Optimization of ablation correction of an optical system and associated methods
A method for optimizing a prescription for laser-ablation corneal treatment achieves the modification of wavefront-based refractive correction data with the use of user/doctor-input nomograms. Data...
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7220255 |
Method and apparatus for laser surgery of the cornea
A laser-based method and apparatus for corneal surgery. The present invention is intended to be applied primarily to ablate organic materials, and human cornea in particular. The invention uses a...
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7220224 |
Retinal translocation and fixation using adhesive material
The present invention relates to a method of displacing an area of the macula of an eye, including the steps of placing a substance below the surface of the retina, folding the retina to form a...
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7211077 |
Methods for removing epithelial cells prior to performing corneal ablation
Methods for removing certain of the cells of the epithelium prior to performing corneal ablation, comprising, ablating certain of the cells of the epithelium in an area above the cornea to form an...
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7207983 |
System and method for real-time feedback of ablation rate during laser refractive surgery
A laser-based refractive surgery system includes a laser source including a laser controller, wherein at least a portion of the incident beam is directed to target eye tissue of a patient. The...
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7189224 |
System and method for improved material processing using a laser beam
A method and system for improved material processing using a laser beam. The method and system includes directing a laser beam above, at or below the surface of the material in one or more...
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7178231 |
Electrode assembly for a thermokeratoplasty system used to correct vision acuity
An electrode assembly that can be used to apply current to a cornea. The assembly includes a tip that is attached to a stop. The stop is pressed into an inner channel of an electrode body. The stop...
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7175278 |
Wavefront reconstruction using fourier transformation and direct integration
The present invention provides methods, systems and software for generating a wavefront elevation map using Fourier transformation algorithms. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a...
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7173745 |
Optical beam delivery configuration
An optical beam delivery configuration includes zoom lens means ( 30 ) and beam scanning means ( 44 ) defining an optical path ( 20 ) for a light beam. The beam scanning means is disposed after the...
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7163543 |
Combined treatment for cataract and glaucoma treatment
A method is provided for treatment of cataract in combination with a glaucoma procedure while maintaining the intraocular pressure by permitting aqueous to flow out of an anterior chamber of the...
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7146983 |
Iris recognition and tracking for optical treatment
A system and method are provided in which an iris or eye image is taken during a refractive diagnostic analysis. The image is employed for aligning data from the analysis with data from other...
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7135016 |
Non-penetrating filtration surgery
This invention is an apparatus for ophthalmic surgery comprising a laser source ( 52 ) that generates a laser beam ( 54 ); a scanner ( 56 ) comprising an input for said laser beam, and an output of...
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7130835 |
System and method for predictive ophthalmic correction
A system and method for providing a predictive outcome in the form of a predictive best instruction for a therapeutic ophthalmic correction of a patient's vision defects. The predictive best...
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7125405 |
Method for calculating refractive correction amount in corneal refractive surgery
An apparatus for operation on a cornea by ablating with a laser beam for correcting ametropia; the apparatus comprising an input device utilized for inputting each data necessary for correction, a...
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7125119 |
Universal gonioscope-contact lens system for observation and intraocular laser surgery
The invention provides a universal gonioscope-contact lens system suitable for diagnostics and intraocular laser surgery. The device consists of a hollow gonioscope body with a plurality of mirrors...
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7118561 |
Corneal surgery apparatus
A corneal surgery apparatus capable of accurately obtaining torsion information on an eyeball or positional information on an eye even during laser irradiation or after a cornea is incised into a...
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7115120 |
Selective photocoagulation
Selective photocoagulation of particular cells, tissue or portion of tissue can be aided by monitoring microcavitation within the material exposed to electromagnetic radiation ( 12 ). The...
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7112194 |
Method and apparatus for obtaining irradiation intensity of a laser beam, and apparatus for irradiating the laser beam
A method and an apparatus for obtaining irradiation intensity of a laser beam, and a laser beam irradiation apparatus that enable obtaining an irradiation intensity distribution of a laser beam...
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