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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2006
Filed:
May. 08, 2000
Applicants:
Ehud Asia, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Alex Harel, Savyon, IL;
Adi Shargil, Bnei-Zion, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Optotech Ltd., Nazereth-Ilit, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention is an apparatus for ophthalmic surgery comprising a laser source () that generates a laser beam (); a scanner () comprising an input for said laser beam, and an output of a spatially scanned laser beam (); controlling circuitry that drives said scanner () to remove tissue in a desired pattern on the eye (); a microscope () for viewing said tissue removal; and a beam combiner () comprising a first input for a line of sight of said microscope () and second input for said spatially scanned beam ().