Toric optic for ophthalmic use

• US 8,521,318 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2012
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Abbott Medical Optics Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Zhao, Huawei
• Primary Examiner(s): SHECHTMAN, SEAN P
• Application Number:
  US13/601,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20130060542A1
• Time in Patent Office: 361 Days
• Field of Search: 700/29, 700/97, 700/98, 700/117, 700/182, 703/2, 703/6, 703/11
• US Class Current: 700/117
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/1637 Correcting aberrations caused by inhomogeneities; correcting intrinsic aberrations, e.g. of the cornea, of the surface of the natural lens, aspheric, cylindrical, toric lenses
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/1645 Toric lenses
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2240/002 Designing or making customized prostheses
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/024 Methods of designing ophthalmic lenses
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 7/04 Contact lenses for the eyes disinfection or sterilisation of contact lenses A61L12/00

Abstract

An ophthalmic lens for modifying or reducing non-axisymmetric higher order aberrations includes an optic body disposed about an optical axis having a primary meridian and an orthogonal secondary meridian. The optic body includes a higher order toric shape that is imposed on or added to one of the optic body surfaces. The higher order toric shape also includes a first profile disposed along the primary meridian and a second profile disposed along the secondary meridian that is different in shape from the first profile. The higher order toric shape is characterized by a profile along at least one meridian of the lens that changes with increasing radius from the optical axis raised to a power that is greater than two.

Claims

1. A method of producing an ophthalmic element, comprising:

providing a model cornea, the model cornea characterized by one or more of;

an aspheric profile along a first meridian of the model cornea that is different from an aspheric profile along an orthogonal second meridian of the model cornea;

one or more of fifth-order, seventh-order, and ninth-order aberrations; and

an asphericity of a first zone of the model cornea that is different from an asphericity of a second zone of the model cornea surrounding the first zone;

providing a model ophthalmic element disposed about an optical axis having a primary meridian and an orthogonal secondary meridian, the model ophthalmic element comprising an anterior surface and an opposing posterior surface, the model ophthalmic element characterized by a higher order toric shape imposed on one of the surfaces, the higher order toric shape including a first profile disposed along the primary meridian and a second profile disposed along the secondary meridian that is different in shape from the first profile, the higher order toric shape being characterized by a profile along at least one meridian that changes with increasing radius from the optical axis raised to a power that is greater than two;

providing a merit function representative of the optical performance of a system including the model cornea and the model ophthalmic element;

selecting a value of a first coefficient of an equation characterizing the higher order toric shape of the model ophthalmic element;

calculating a value of the merit function based on the value of the first coefficient and determining whether the value of the merit function is above a predetermined value;

repeating selecting a value of the first coefficient and calculating a value of the merit function until the merit function is above the threshold value; and

producing a physical ophthalmic element based on a value of the first coefficient that causes the merit function to be above the threshold value.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein providing a model cornea includes providing corneal information, the corneal information being selected from the group consisting of information of the shape of a cornea of a particular eye and an average corneal shape of a population of eyes.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the population of corneas includes eyes having differing amounts of cylinder power.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the differing amounts of cylinder power range from less than or equal to 0.25 Diopter to greater than or equal to 3 Diopters.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the model ophthalmic element is selected from the group consisting of producing an intraocular lens, producing a corneal implant, producing a contact lens, and performing a corneal surgical procedure.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the asphericity of each meridian of the first and second meridians is characterized by one or more of

a conic equation containing a curvature value and a conic constant;

and

a polynomial equation including at least one term that changes according to radius from a center of the model cornea raised to a power that is greater than two.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

selecting a second coefficient of the equation characterizing the higher order toric shape of the model ophthalmic element;

calculating a value of the merit function based on the values of the first coefficient and the second coefficient, and determining whether the value of the merit function is above a predetermined value;

repeating selecting values of one or both of the first coefficient and the second coefficient, and calculating a value of the merit function until the merit function is above the threshold value; and

providing a physical ophthalmic element based on values of the first coefficient and the second coefficient that cause the merit function to be above the threshold value.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting, and optionally adjusting, the value of the first coefficient comprises characterizing the higher order toric shape of the model ophthalmic element by the equation:

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the corneal model is selected from the group consisting of the shape of a cornea of a particular eye and an average corneal shape of a population of eyes.

10. A system for producing an ophthalmic element, comprising:

a memory coupled to a processor, the memory comprising a plurality of code modules for execution by the processor and one or more data values used during execution of the code modules, the memory including;

i) data for defining a model cornea characterized by one or more of;

an aspheric profile along a first meridian of the model cornea that is different from an aspheric profile along a second meridian of the model cornea;

one or more of fifth-order, seventh-order, and ninth-order aberrations; and

an asphericity of a first zone of the model cornea that is different from an asphericity of a second zone of the model cornea surrounding the first zone;

ii) data for defining a model ophthalmic element disposed about an optical axis comprising an anterior surface and an opposing posterior surface, the model ophthalmic element characterized by a higher order toric shape imposed on one of the surfaces, the higher order toric shape including a first profile disposed along a primary meridian of the model ophthalmic element and a second profile disposed along a secondary meridian of the model ophthalmic element that is different in shape from the first profile, the higher order toric shape being characterized by a profile along at least one meridian that changes with increasing radius from the optical axis raised to a power that is greater than two;

iii) one or more code modules for calculating a merit function representative of the optical performance of a system including the model cornea and the model ophthalmic element;

iv) one or more code modules for selecting a value of a first coefficient of an equation characterizing the higher order toric shape of the model ophthalmic element;

v) one or more code modules for calculating a value of the merit function based on the value of the first coefficient and determining whether the value of the merit function is above a predetermined value;

vi) one or more code modules for repeating selecting a value of the first coefficient and calculating a value of the merit function until the merit function is above the threshold value; and

vii) one or more code modules for providing parameters necessary to produce a physical ophthalmic element, the parameter values being based on a value of the first coefficient that causes the merit function to be above the threshold value; and

an output containing the parameters necessary to produce the physical ophthalmic element.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the output includes one or more of a monitor displaying values for the parameters, one or more sheets of paper containing values for the parameters, and an electronic signal containing values of the parameters readable by an electronic device.