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Apparatus for creating incisions to improve intraocular lens placement

  • US 8,518,026 B2
  • Filed: 03/13/2008
  • Issued: 08/27/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for treating a lesion on target eye tissue, comprising:

  • a. a light source for producing a laser beam;

    b. one or more scanning elements configured to direct a focal point of a laser beam produced by the light source to various portions of a lens capsule of an eye of a patient; and

    c. a controller operatively coupled to the light source and to the one or more scanning elements, wherein the controller is programmed to operate the one or more scanning elements to cause a laser beam produced by the light source to create a capsulotomy and at least one intraocular lens registration feature within a lens capsule of a patient'"'"'s eye, wherein the at least one intraocular lens registration feature comprises a feature created within the lens capsule that is discrete from the capsulotomy.

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