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Hand-held laser scanner

  • US 5,957,915 A
  • Filed: 07/22/1997
  • Issued: 09/28/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A surgical system for connection to a laser that generates a pulsed laser beam, wherein the surgical system scans the laser beam onto a target tissue, the surgical system comprising:

  • a scanning mirror means for reflecting a pulsed laser beam;

    a lens onto which the scanning mirror means reflects the pulsed laser beam and through which the pulsed laser beam is refracted onto the target tissue; and

    a controller that operates the scanning mirror means to scan the pulses in the laser beam to form a selected pattern of spots on the target tissue, the controller being responsive to a control panel that includes;

    a pattern selector for selecting the selected pattern from a plurality of predetermined patterns, andan overlap selector for selecting the relative spacing between the spots in the selected pattern.

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