Device and method for determining at least one ocular aberration

    公开(公告)号:US11883098B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-30

    申请号:US18068566

    申请日:2022-12-20

    摘要: A device and a method for determining an ocular aberration of at least one eye of a user are disclosed. The device contains a wavefront sensing unit for measuring at least one optical wavefront with at least one light beam, from which an ocular aberration of the at least one eye of the user is determined. The device further contains at least one diffractive element for generating multiple diffraction orders in the light beam in two meridians in a manner that the multiple diffraction orders are spatially separated on the wavefront sensing unit and in the eye of the user. The device and the method allow generating an ocular defocus map in a one-shot assessment in real-time, especially by employing an automated measurement of the ocular aberrations with regard to different eccentricities of the eye of the user in two meridians.

    Ophthalmologic imaging apparatus
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11877798B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-23

    申请号:US17035910

    申请日:2020-09-29

    申请人: NIDEK CO., LTD.

    发明人: Koichi Ito

    IPC分类号: A61B3/10 A61B3/00

    摘要: An ophthalmologic imaging apparatus having an OCT optical system for acquiring OCT data of a tissue of a subject eye based on a spectral interference signal of measurement light emitted to the tissue and reference light. The apparatus further has a second optical system for acquiring a front image of the tissue; an optical element having asymmetry and arranged on a common optical path of the OCT optical system and the second optical system; and an arithmetic controller that associates an OCT data acquisition position with coordinates of the front image while taking at least a difference in distortion caused by the optical element between the OCT optical system and the second optical system into consideration.

    MACHINE LEARNING TO ASSESS THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF VITREOUS FLOATERS

    公开(公告)号:US20240016378A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-18

    申请号:US18351389

    申请日:2023-07-12

    申请人: Alcon Inc.

    IPC分类号: A61B3/10 A61B3/00

    CPC分类号: A61B3/102 A61B3/0025

    摘要: Particular embodiments disclosed herein provide a method for training a machine learning model to estimate the clinical significance of floaters in a patient's eye. One or more images, such as SLO images or en face retinal OCT images, are evaluated to identify shaded regions corresponding to floaters. The shaded regions are measured and the measurements processed using a machine learning model to obtain an estimated significance. The machine learning model is then updated according to a comparison of the estimated significance to a human-assigned clinical significance. The machine learning model may additionally or alternatively be updated by evaluating the estimated category with respect to visibility threshold data, such as one or more visibility threshold surfaces defined with respect to two or more variables.

    Ophthalmologic microscope and function expansion unit

    公开(公告)号:US11871994B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-16

    申请号:US17494273

    申请日:2021-10-05

    IPC分类号: A61B3/135 A61B3/10

    CPC分类号: A61B3/135 A61B3/102

    摘要: The object of the present invention is to develop an ophthalmologic microscope of a new method that increases the degree of freedom in the optical design in the Galilean ophthalmologic microscope provided with an OCT optical system. The present invention provides an ophthalmologic microscope, wherein an observation optical system, an objective lens, and an OCT optical system are placed in such a way that the optical axis of the OCT optical system does not penetrate through objective lens, and the optical axis of the observation optical system and the optical axis of the OCT optical system are non-coaxial, and wherein the ophthalmologic microscope further comprises a SLO optical system that scans a light ray which is a visible ray, a near infrared ray, or an infrared ray and guides the light to the subject's eye so as to become substantially coaxial with the optical axis of the OCT optical system.

    METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DETERMINING OPTICAL ABERRATIONS AND/OR THE TOPOGRAPHY, AND/OR RECORDING REFERNECE IMAGES OF AN EYE

    公开(公告)号:US20240000311A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-04

    申请号:US18251065

    申请日:2021-10-25

    摘要: Using the present solution, it is possible both to determine optical aberrations and/or the topography and to simultaneously or immediately successively record reference images of an eye. Within the scope of the method, the eye is illuminated with different illumination patterns by means of an illumination unit, and the light reflected by the eye is recorded by a plenoptic camera sensor and evaluated by a control and evaluation unit. According to the invention, the eye is illuminated with different illumination patterns which differ in respect of their intensity distribution and illumination direction, the light reflected by the eye is imaged onto the plenoptic camera sensor and the topography and/or optical aberrations and/or reference images of the illuminated eye are determined from the image data of the plenoptic camera sensor on the basis of the utilized illumination pattern. Even though the solution is especially provided for applications in ophthalmology, it can also be applied in other specialist fields and in industry.

    Retinal cameras having movable optical stops

    公开(公告)号:US11857260B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-02

    申请号:US16649437

    申请日:2018-09-19

    摘要: Introduced here are retinal cameras having optical stops whose size and/or position can be modified to increase the size of the space in which an eye can move while being imaged. In some embodiments, an optical stop is mechanically moved to recover retinal image quality as the subject shifts their eye. In some embodiments, an optical stop is digitally created using a pixelated liquid crystal display (LCD) layer having multiple pixels that are individually controllably. In some embodiments, multiple non-pixelated LCD layers are connected to one another to form a variable transmission stack, and each LCD layer within the variable transmission stack may be offset from the other LCD layers. In such embodiments, the optical stop can be moved by changing which LCD layer is active at a given point in time.

    PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR OCT IMAGING, OCT IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OCT IMAGING

    公开(公告)号:US20230414095A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-28

    申请号:US18253603

    申请日:2021-11-18

    IPC分类号: A61B3/10

    摘要: The invention relates to a processing system for use with optical coherence tomography imaging means for imaging a subject, the processing system being configured to repeatedly perform an image processing process (300), comprising the following steps: receiving (312) a scan data set from the subject (190) being acquired by means of optical coherence tomography, performing (314) data processing on the scan data set, including applying (316) dispersion correction based on a current set (370) of dispersion coefficients, and providing (318) a dispersion corrected image data set of the subject for an image of the subject to be displayed; and the processing system further being configured to repeatedly perform a dispersion coefficient adapting process (340), at least in part, in parallel to the image processing process (300), comprising the following steps: receiving (342) a scan data set from the subject being acquired by means of optical coherence tomography, adapting (344) dispersion coefficients by means of an optimization process (346) performed on the scan data set, and providing (348) a set (372) of adapted dispersion coefficients to be used to update the current set (370) of dispersion coefficients; and the processing system further being configured to update (350) the current set (370) of dispersion coefficients based on the set (372) of adapted dispersion coefficients, to an optical coherence tomography imaging system and a corresponding method.