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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2004
Seung-ho Baek, Pittsford, NY (US);
Douglass L. Blanding, Rochester, NY (US);
Rongguang Liang, Penfield, NY (US);
Dale L. Tucker, Rochester, NY (US);
Jeffery R. Hawver, Marion, NY (US);
Seung-Ho Baek, Pittsford, NY (US);
Douglass L. Blanding, Rochester, NY (US);
Rongguang Liang, Penfield, NY (US);
Dale L. Tucker, Rochester, NY (US);
Jeffery R. Hawver, Marion, NY (US);
Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus () for obtaining a scanned image of an eye has a reference locator for pupil alignment apparatus along an optical axis. A pupil profiling apparatus for obtaining an outline of the pupil has a pupil profiling light source (), a sensor () for detecting reflected light, and a control logic processor () for computing an outline of the pupil according to detected light. An illumination apparatus () for directing visible illumination into the eye has a spatial light modulator () for shaping an illumination beam according to the detected outline, a scanning element (), and a camera () for obtaining the scanned image by sensing a portion of the reflected illumination.