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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1999
Charles S. Taylor, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian S. Donlon, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Timothy R. Machold, Moss Beach, CA (US);
Heartport, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A surgical microscope comprising a microscope body, lens means attached to the microscope body for magnifying an object image, an eyepiece attached to the microscope body for viewing the magnified object image, and coupling means attached to the microscope body for retaining a supplementary lens in optical alignment with the lens means, the coupling means being configured for introducing the supplementary lens through a percutaneous penetration into a body cavity, wherein the eyepiece and the lens means are configured to facilitate stereoscopic viewing. In a variation of the surgical microscope, a plurality of binocular eyepieces are attached to the microscope body to allow multiple persons to contemporaneously view the magnified object image.