Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Patent
1995-10-27
1998-07-21
Shay, David M.
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
606 2, 606 3, 606 10, 606 14, A61N 502
Patent
active
057828229
ABSTRACT:
A surgical technique for removing corneal tissue with scanned infrared radiation is disclosed which utilizes short mid-infrared laser pulses to provide a tissue removal mechanism based on photospallation. Photospallation is a photomechanical ablation mechanism which results from the absorption of incident radiation by the corneal tissue. Since photospallation is a mechanical ablation process, very little heat is generated in the unablated adjacent tissue. The disclosed surgical system includes a scanning beam delivery system which allows uniform irradiation of the treatment region and utilizes low energy outputs to achieve controlled tissue removal. A real-time servo-controlled dynamic eye tracker, based on a multiple-detector arrangement, is also disclosed which senses the motion of the eye and provides signals that are proportional to the errors in the lateral alignment of the eye relative to the axis of the laser beam. Temporal and frequency discrimination are preferably utilized to distinguish the tracking illumination from the ambient illumination and the surgical laser beam.
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Hoffman Hanna J.
Telfair William B.
Yoder, Jr. Paul R.
Harris-Ogugua Sonya
IR Vision, Inc.
Shay David M.
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