Method of treating the human eye with a wavefront sensor-based ophthalmic instrument
First Claim
1. A method for treating the human eye comprising the steps of:
- providing an ophthalmic instrument having an integral wavefront sensor disposed along the optical axis therein;
aligning the optical axis of the ophthalmic instrument with the eye;
illuminating the eye with light produced from a light source and enabling the wavefront sensor to perform wavefront sensing operations that measures high order aberrations of the eye;
displaying a graphical representation of said high order aberrations of the eye measured by the wavefront sensor; and
treating the eye to correct for said high order aberrations of the eye.
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Abstract
An improved method for treating the eye includes the step of providing an ophthalmic instrument including an integral wavefront sensor. The wavefront sensor measures phase aberrations in reflections directed thereto to characterize aberrations of the eye. The wavefront sensor may be operably coupled to a display device, which displays a graphical representation of the aberrations of the eye. Such graphical representation may include: two dimensional contour maps that graphically depict contribution of pre-specified terms (such as spherical aberration, astigmatism and coma) for the aberrations of the eye, coefficients corresponding to such pre-specified terms that characterize the aberrations of the eye, or predefined two-dimensional icons that provide a general graphical depiction of such pre-specified terms. Such graphical representations provide the practitioner with valuable information characterizing the high order optical errors of the eye (which is far beyond the diopter information typically provided by current ophthalmic instruments) for use in diagnosis and treatment of abnormalities and disease in the eye. In addition, the wavefront sensor may be part of an adaptive optical subsystem that compensates for the phase aberrations measured therein to provide phase-aligned images of the eye for capture by an image capture subsystem. Such images may be used by practitioner in diagnosis and treatment of abnormalities and disease in the eye.
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48 Claims
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1. A method for treating the human eye comprising the steps of:
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providing an ophthalmic instrument having an integral wavefront sensor disposed along the optical axis therein;
aligning the optical axis of the ophthalmic instrument with the eye;
illuminating the eye with light produced from a light source and enabling the wavefront sensor to perform wavefront sensing operations that measures high order aberrations of the eye;
displaying a graphical representation of said high order aberrations of the eye measured by the wavefront sensor; and
treating the eye to correct for said high order aberrations of the eye. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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23. A method for treating the human eye comprising the steps of:
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providing an ophthalmic imaging instrument having an integral adaptive optical subsystem disposed along the optical axis therein;
aligning the optical axis of the ophthalmic instrument with the eye;
illuminating the eye with light produced from a light source and enabling the adaptive optical subsystem to perform wavefront sensing and compensation operations; and
concurrently with said wavefront sensing and compensation operations performed by the adaptive optical subsystem, capturing an image of the eye derived from compensation by the adaptive optical subsystem.
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