Method for patterned plasma-mediated modification of the crystalline lens
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국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
A61B-018/20
A61F-002/16
A61F-009/007
A61F-009/009
A61F-009/008
A61B-003/10
출원번호
US-0861798
(2010-08-23)
등록번호
US-9402715
(2016-08-02)
발명자
/ 주소
Culbertson, William
Seibel, Barry
Friedman, Neil
Schuele, Georg
Gooding, Philip
출원인 / 주소
Optimedica Corporation
대리인 / 주소
Abbott Medical Optics Inc.
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초록▼
A method of treating a lens of a patient's eye includes generating a light beam, deflecting the light beam using a scanner to form a treatment pattern of the light beam, delivering the treatment pattern to the lens of a patient's eye to create a plurality of cuts in the lens in the form of the treat
A method of treating a lens of a patient's eye includes generating a light beam, deflecting the light beam using a scanner to form a treatment pattern of the light beam, delivering the treatment pattern to the lens of a patient's eye to create a plurality of cuts in the lens in the form of the treatment pattern to break the lens up into a plurality of pieces, and removing the lens pieces from the patient's eye. The lens pieces can then be mechanically removed. The light beam can be used to create larger segmenting cuts into the lens, as well as smaller softening cuts that soften the lens for easier removal.
대표청구항▼
1. A method of treating a cataractous lens of a patient's eye, comprising: a. generating a pulsed laser beam with a laser;b. operating a scanning device to scan a focal point of the laser beam within the cataractous lens in a first treatment pattern configured to create one or more incision surfaces
1. A method of treating a cataractous lens of a patient's eye, comprising: a. generating a pulsed laser beam with a laser;b. operating a scanning device to scan a focal point of the laser beam within the cataractous lens in a first treatment pattern configured to create one or more incision surfaces that extend along a length between a posterior cutting limit and an anterior cutting limit, the one or more incision surfaces being configured to bias the cataractous lens to fracture into sections;c. operating the scanning device to scan the focal point in a second treatment pattern that creates softening cuts configured to bias the sections to fracture into segments that are dimensionally smaller than the sections; andd. splitting the cataractous lens into two or more sections wherein said softening cuts are produced by a lower pulse energy than a pulse energy used to produce the incision surfaces. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein splitting comprises manipulating one or more portions of the two or more sections. 3. The method of claim 1, further comprising fracturing at least one or the two or more sections into segments. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein fracturing comprises manipulating at least one of the two or more sections with an aspiration needle or a phacoemulsification tip. 5. The method of claim 3, further comprising removing the segments from the eye. 6. The method of claim 5, wherein removing the segments from the eye comprises introducing, into the lens capsule containing the segments, at least one of the group consisting of an aspiration needle and a phacoemulsification tip. 7. The method of claim 1, further comprising forming an incision in a lens capsule of the patient's eye. 8. The method of claim 7, wherein forming an incision comprises operating the scanning device to direct the light beam to form a third treatment pattern upon the lens capsule. 9. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more incision surfaces comprises a plurality of intersecting incision surfaces. 10. The method of claim 1, wherein the softening cuts comprises a plurality of intersecting incision surfaces. 11. The method of claim 1, wherein the outer dimension of the first treatment pattern is different than that of the second treatment pattern. 12. The method of claim 1, further comprising repeatedly exposing the cataractous lens to one or more of the first and second treatment patterns to further bias the cataractous lens to fracture. 13. The method of claim 1, wherein the segments are dimensioned to be small enough to fit within an inner diameter of a phacoemulsification device tip. 14. The method of claim 13, wherein the segments have a maximum outer dimension of between 0.25 mm and 1.1 mm. 15. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second treatment patterns do no overlap with each other. 16. The method of claim 15, wherein the first and second treatment patterns are separated by between 100 microns and 1,000 microns. 17. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second treatment patterns substantially overlap with each other. 18. The method of claim 17, wherein the second treatment pattern is smaller in outer dimension than the first treatment pattern. 19. The method of claim 17, wherein the second treatment pattern defines one or more portions having a width dimension that is equivalent to the outer diameter of a phacoemulsification device tip. 20. The method of claim 1, further comprising operating the scanning device to create a second set of first and second treatment patterns at a second depth within the cataractous lens different from the first depth. 21. The method of claim 20, wherein the first depth is deeper than the second depth, and wherein the first and second treatment patterns at the first depth are aligned with the first and second treatment patterns at the second depth. 22. The method of claim 20, wherein the first depth is deeper than the second depth, and wherein one or more features of the first and second treatment patterns at the second depth are shifted relative to their counterparts at the first depth. 23. The method of claim 22, wherein the one or more features of the first and second treatment patterns at the second depth are shifted rotationally or laterally relative to their counterparts at the first depth. 24. The method of claim 20, wherein the lateral extent of one of the treatment patterns at the first depth is different from that of its counterpart at the second depth. 25. The method of claim 24, wherein the first depth is deeper than the second depth, and wherein the lateral extent of one of the treatment patterns at the first depth is smaller than that of its counterpart at the second depth. 26. The method of claim 1, further comprising measuring the positions of the anterior and posterior boundaries of the cataractous lens, and selecting the first depth such that the distance between the first depth and the posterior boundary of the cataractous lens is large enough to preclude incidental damage to structures located posterior of the posterior boundary of the cataractous lens. 27. The method of claim 26, wherein measuring comprises using optical coherence tomography. 28. The method of claim 26, wherein measuring comprises using one of Purkinje imaging, Scheimpflug imaging, and ultrasound imaging. 29. The method of claim 1, wherein the first treatment pattern is a spiral shape or a plurality of concentric circles. 30. The method of claim 1, wherein the posterior cutting limit is disposed between 10 μm and 1000 μm from the posterior surface of the lens capsule containing the cataractous lens. 31. The method of claim 30, wherein the anterior cutting limit is disposed between 10 μm and 1000 μm from the anterior surface of the lens capsule containing the cataractous lens. 32. The method of claim 30, wherein the anterior cutting limit is disposed at the anterior surface of the lens capsule containing the cataractous lens. 33. The method of claim 1, wherein said softening cuts comprise a plurality of single laser spots. 34. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of single laser spots are a regular array of single laser spots.
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