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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2006
Applicants:
Dan E. Andersen, Menlo Park, CA (US);
David H. Mordaunt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Dan E. Andersen, Menlo Park, CA (US);
David H. Mordaunt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
TOPCON MEDICAL LASER SYSTEMS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 9/008 (2006.01); A61F 9/007 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 9/008 (2013.01); A61F 9/00821 (2013.01); A61F 9/00781 (2013.01); A61F 2009/00863 (2013.01); A61F 2009/00868 (2013.01); A61F 2009/00872 (2013.01); A61F 2009/00897 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for treating ophthalmic target tissue in which a light source generates a beam of light, a scanner unit deflects the beam of light into a pattern, a beam delivery unit for delivering the pattern to ophthalmic target tissue. The light is either pulsed or moved across the target tissue such that the light pulses having a duration of, or the light dwells on any given point of target tissue for, between 30 μs and 10 ms.