Hand-held laser scanner

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1997-07-22

1999-09-28

Leubecker, John P.

Surgery

Instruments

Light application

606 11, 606 18, A61B 1736

Patent

active

059579153

ABSTRACT:
A surgical laser scanner having optics that scans a pulsed laser beam onto a target tissue is disclosed. The laser scanner has a lens and a scanning mirror or mirrors located upstream of the lens at a distance substantially equal to the focal length of the lens. The laser beam hits the scanning mirror and is reflected onto the lens in a pattern defined by sequential positions of the scanning mirror. The laser beam is projected onto the target tissue by the lens in a direction parallel to the optical axis of the lens. The projected pattern has a constant size regardless of the distance between the laser scanner and the target tissue.

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