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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2014
Applicant:
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Inventors:
Stan Huth, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Denise Tran, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/101 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of determining tear film lipid layer thickness. The method includes the steps of measuring a tear film aqueous plus lipid layer relative reflectance spectrum using a wavelength-dependent optical interferometer; converting the measured tear film aqueous plus lipid layer relative reflectance spectrum to a calculated absolute reflectance spectrum; and comparing the calculated absolute reflectance spectrum to a theoretical absolute lipid reflectance spectrum to determine a tear film lipid layer thickness.