Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-15
2006-08-15
Johnson, III, Henry M. (Department: 3739)
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
C128S898000, C607S088000, C607S089000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07090670
ABSTRACT:
An array of light beams is swept along a main scan direction and dithered in a sub-scan direction to generate a treatment pattern of spots. The array is elongated along the sub-scan direction and the dithering has a travel that is significantly less than the length of the array in the sub-scan direction.
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