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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2005
Gert Koest, Hannover, DE;
Gert Koest, Hannover, DE;
Oculus Optikgeraete GmbH, Wetzlar Dutenhofen, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for operating an ophthalmological analysis system having a slit projection unit for slit illumination of the eye and a Scheimpflug camera for taking digitized sectional images of the eye, slit projection unit and Scheimpflug camera being mounted so that they may pivot jointly rotating around an axis which is essentially coincident with the optical axis of the eye. In a first position of slit projection unit and Scheimpflug camera, a recording of a sectional image of the eye is made and stored as the first image data set. Subsequently, slit projection unit and Scheimpflug camera are pivoted rotating at least once and fixed in this particular subsequent (second, third, fourth, . . . ) position. In the particular subsequent (second, third, fourth, . . . ) position of slit projection unit and Scheimpflug camera, a recording of a sectional image of the eye is made and stored as the subsequent (second, third, fourth, . . . ) image data set. A multidimensional description model of at least one component of the eye is derived through image data analysis of the different image data sets in a digital image data analysis device and stored as the resulting data set. The resulting data set is output in suitable form to a data output device.