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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4711542 | Ophthalmic disease detection apparatus An apparatus for detecting ophthalmic diseases such as a cataract in the lens of a patient's eye which includes means for focussing a laser beam at a selected spot in the lens of an eye, and according to which the light back-scattered from the eye are pho... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4694828 | Laser system for intraocular tissue removal A laser system for intraocular tissue removal including a handpiece and a nose cone assembly releasably coupled to the handpiece. The handpiece and nose cone assembly have mating passageways for aspiration and irrigation, and the handpiece supports a lase... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4694290 | Readiness indicator for laser medical instruments Readiness for operation of laser medical instruments or of flash generators for ophthalmological instruments is indicated in such a way that the readiness signal is perceptible only to the physician and not to the patient being operated upon. There is a m... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4582405 | Ophthalmological combination instrument for diagnosis and treatment An Nd:YAG laser of small size with a passive quality switch is combined with a slit-lamp instrument, to form an ophthalmological combination instrument for diagnosis and treatment. By a plurality of pulses within a pulse train, which succeed each other wi... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4559942 | Method utilizing a laser for eye surgery Surgical apparatus including laser, probe apparatus defining a radiation inlet and a radiation outlet, the radiation inlet being coupled in radiation receiving relationship to the laser, and apparatus for injecting a precisely controllable volume of air a... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4558698 | Laser canaliculostomy eye-treatment A laser canaliculostomy eye-treatment method and device for promoting drainage of aqueous humor from the anterior chamber. According to one manner of practicing the invention, blood exiting the Canal of Schlemm is blocked by rim pressure applied externall... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4538608 | Method and apparatus for removing cataractous lens tissue by laser radiation The invention involves the apparatus and the technique for non-invasive surgery to remove cataracted-lens tissue from an afflicted lens. The beam output of a laser is focused to a spot of maximum power density at the anterior surface of a cataracted lens ... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4525842 | Laser device and method A simplified, relatively inexpensive laser device, wherein the laser elements are fixed in a body exoskeleton of electrical insulating material having a low coefficient of thermal expansion. The preferred embodiment includes a shotgun type laser filter ha... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4499897 | Optical head of an installation for observation and treatment of the eye by laser radiation The optical head of an installation for observation and treatment by a laser beam of an eye comprises a mirror disposed between an observing microscope and a focusing lens for reflecting towards the latter a treatment and a marking laser radiation beam fo... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4309998 | Process and apparatus for ophthalmic surgery Process and apparatus for ophthalmological surgery, wherein the apparatus includes a laser having a beam of power greater than 1012 Watts/cm2 in one or more very short pulses of duration between 20 and 400 picoseconds. The laser beam... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4164222 | Laser ophthalmological unit A laser ophthalmological unit comprises a lasing source and an optical sym having a slit source for illumination of the surgery field. This laser and illumination source are housed in a common casing hinged on the bracket of the microscope designed for o... | 08/14/1979 |
| 3971382 | Method of non-surgical treatment of cataracts A method of non-surgical treatment of soft and membraneous cataracts, including congenital cataracts, said method comprising the step of cutting the anterior capsule of the lens and/or pupillary membrane without perforating injury to the eye wall with a l... | 07/27/1976 |
