INTEGRATED SURGICAL MICROSCOPE AND WAVEFRONT SENSOR
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Abstract
A wavefront sensor is integrated with a surgical microscope for allowing a doctor to make repeated wavefront measurements of a patient'"'"'s eye while the patient remains on an operating table in the surgical position. The device includes a wavefront sensor optically aligned with a surgical microscope such that their fields of view at least partially overlap. The inclusion of lightweight, compact diffractive optical components in the wavefront sensor allows the integrated device to be supported on a balancing mechanism above a patient'"'"'s head during a surgical procedure. As a result, the need to reposition the device and/or the patient between measuring optical properties of the eye and performing surgical procedures on the eye is eliminated. Many surgical procedures may be improved or enhanced using the integrated device, including but not limited to cataract surgery, Conductive Keratoplasty, Lasik surgery, and corneal corrective surgery.
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41 Claims
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1-34. -34. (canceled)
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35. A surgical device for measuring properties of an eye, comprising:
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a wavefront sensor for performing refractive measurements of the eye, the wavefront sensor comprising a fastener to removably attach the wavefront sensor to a stereo surgical microscope having a support structure to movably support the stereo surgical microscope over a patient'"'"'s eye, the stereo surgical microscope for providing a field of view, wherein the fastener supports the wavefront sensor in position relative to the stereo surgical microscope such that the wavefront sensor is fixedly optically aligned with the stereo surgical microscope along the optical pathway from the stereo surgical microscope to the eye when the wavefront sensor is attached to the stereo surgical microscope, the optical pathway being shared by the stereo surgical microscope and wavefront sensor. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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