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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2023
The Catholic University of Korea Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, Seoul, KR;
Hosik Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A slit lamp microscope may include first and second arms rotatably provided on a main shaft; a microscope provided on the first arm and used to observe a subject's eyeball; a light source unit provided on the second arm and irradiating light including near-ultraviolet and visible light regions, including light with a wavelength of 405 nm, to the eyeball of a subject; a third arm rotatably provided on the main shaft; a camera provided on the main shaft and imaging the eyeball of the subject; an excitation filter that transmits only light with a wavelength of 405 nm that induces a fluorescence reaction in stained goblet cells among the light irradiated from the light source unit to the eyeball of the subject; and a light receiving filter that transmits only the light fluorescently reacted in the goblet cells among the light received by the camera.