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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
May. 18, 2001
Kanagasingam Yogesan, Nedlands, AU;
Ian Jeffrey Constable, Mosman Park, AU;
Gabriel Suplewski, Currambine, AU;
Kanagasingam Yogesan, Nedlands, AU;
Ian Jeffrey Constable, Mosman Park, AU;
Gabriel Suplewski, Currambine, AU;
The Lions Eye Institute of Western Australia, Inc., Western Australia, AU;
Abstract
A portable slit-lamp apparatus, including a body () able to be held in the hand of an operator and a solid state lamp means () and associated optics () carried by the body for generating a narrow beam of light and projecting the beam onto the cornea of a patient s eye for reflection by structures of the eye, when the body is held at a suitable position in front of the eye. Means () is mounted in cooperation with the body and the solid state lamp means to detect a reflection of the narrow beam of light by structures of the eye and to make an image thereof, which image is, or is processable to provide, a digital record of the reflection.