38 results about "Wavefront analysis" patented technology

A method and apparatus for identifying tissue structures in advance of a mechanical medical instrument during a medical procedure. A mechanical tissue penetrating medical instrument (22) has a distal end for penetrating tissue in a penetrating direction. An optical wavefront analysis system (32-50) provides light to illuminate tissue ahead of the medical instrument and receives light returned by tissue ahead of the medical instrument. An optical fiber (30) is coupled at a proximal end to the wavefront analysis system and attached at a distal end to the medical instrument proximate the distal end of the medical instrument. The distal end of the fiber has an illumination pattern directed substantially in the penetrating direction for illuminating the tissue ahead of the medical instrument and receiving light returned therefrom. The wavefront analysis system provides information about the distance from the distal end of the medical instrument to tissue features ahead of the medical instrument.

Devices, systems, and methods often by measuring characterize optical structures and systems, the standard refractive error and irregular aberrations. A retinal spot can propagate through optical tissues of an eye and can be directed to refractive correction optics for correcting standard refractive errors. The corrected image is then directed to wavefront analysis optics, which form a coarse pitch lenslet array pattern and a fine pitch lenslet array pattern. The coarse pitch pattern indicates the standard refractive error of the eye, and can be used to adjust the refractive correction optics. The fine pitch pattern is formed with the corrected retinal image, facilitating precise wavefront reconstruction, measurement of high order aberrations, and the like. The coarse pitch pattern and fine pitch pattern may be formed sequentially or simultaneously.

Systems for performing combined phoropter and refractive measurements to ascertain the aberrations present in the eye of a subject. The systems use a pair of phoropter wheel assemblies, one for each eye, each assembly comprising a number of lens wheels incorporating the series of lenses and wedges required to compensate for a range of refractive vision aberrations. The vision of each eye is corrected by a combination of a subjective phoropter measurement, iteratively performed with an objective wavefront analysis measurement to determine the residual aberrations existing after the initial phoropter correction. The system is able to automatically align the axes of each wavefront analyzer with is corresponding eye, by means of centering the pupil image in the wavefront analyzer camera, and to determine the pupil distance. By changing the focusing point on the wavefront analyzer of the light reflected from the eye, the corneal profile can be measured.

A method for measuring the dynamic behavior of an optical system is aimed at rendering the dynamic behavior of the optical system objectively detectable. To this end, the optical system to be measured is stimulated by stimuli whereby causing it to react, and the reaction is detected by means of a wave front analysis.

The method comprises positioning a diffraction grating with a two-dimensional meshing on the path of the beam to be analyzed and processing at least two interferograms of at least two different colors, each interferogram being obtained in a plane from two sub-beams with different diffraction orders. The invention can be used to analyze and correct divided wavefronts.

An optical system, comprising a microscope housing having a coupling opening for a detachable coupling of an objective lens of the optical system such that the objective lens is arranged in a microscope beam path of the optical system for imaging an object region of the objective lens. The optical system further comprises an assembly. The assembly comprises an assembly housing having a coupling element for the detachable coupling of the coupling element and the coupling opening of the microscope housing; a wavefront analysis system, which provides a wavefront beam path; and a beam splitter, which is arranged in the wavefront beam path. The objective lens, the beam splitter and the wavefront analysis system are arranged such that during the coupling of the coupling opening and the coupling element, the objective lens is arranged in the microscope beam path and the object region is arranged in the wavefront beam path.

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining an ophthalmic lens. In one implementation, three-dimensional coordinates of a center of rotation of the wearer's eye measured on the wearer in binocular vision are received. At least one direction of gaze measured in a natural posture and a determined position of the ophthalmic lens are received. Characteristics of the ophthalmic lens are calculated by using the coordinates measured for the center of rotation of the eye, the determined position of the lens, and the at least one direction of gaze measured in a natural posture. The characteristics of the ophthalmic lens are calculated by positioning a starting ophthalmic lens in the determined position and modifying the starting ophthalmic lens by wavefront analysis and / or optimizing using ray tracing dependent on the coordinates measured for the center of rotation of the eye and the determined position of the lens.

Systems, methods, and software for determining a set of analytical or numerical polynomials that is orthonormal over circular or noncircular pupils are described. Closed-form orthonormal polynomials for circular, annular, hexagonal, elliptical, rectangular, and square pupils are derived. Such techniques can be applied to ray tracing as in the optical design and wavefront fitting from measurement as in the optical testing. These approaches can also be applied to wavefront reconstruction in adaptive optics.

The invention relates to a method for producing high-geometric precision elements made from a neutral material. Using different types of prosthetic restoration, said elements are intended to fill the damage caused in teeth by dental caries or tissue alteration having other causes. The inventive elements are also intended to be used to produce high-precision dental crowns or other related dental devices. The method is characterised in that: a model (10), which is designed to fill the missing dental tissue that has been destroyed, is made either in vivo, updating and defining a new volume (2) that is bordered by healthy tissue and having a tapered wall, or in vitro, taking an impression in the mouth of a dental preparation using an impression compound, said impression then being cast in plaster, and updating and defining a new volume (2) using said positive plaster model; the measurements of said model (10) are then taken in 3D using a three-dimensional measuring apparatus (4, 15, 17) with light wavefront analysis and volume analysis which is carried out using shots, a projector (15) being positioned at an angle to a camera (17) and said projector (15) and camera (17) being mechanically and geometrically linked to a revolving platform (18) that is used to support the model by means of a frame (19) in order to obtain good triangulation; the data are processed electronically (12) to remodel the morsels of volume; the files are subsequently modified electronically to determine exactly the desired profile; and the final element to be implanted is machined with a digitally-controlled machine (6, 23, 24, 22).

A near-eye display system includes an array of lenslets overlying a display panel. The display panel includes an array of light projecting elements, each light projecting element being coaxial with an axis of a corresponding lenslet. The display panel further includes an array of light detecting elements and an array of sub-pixel elements. The system further includes a control component configured to activate the array of light projecting elements to project a pattern of light spots toward an eye of the user and to control the array of light detecting elements to capture an image representing a reflection of the projected pattern of light spots from the eye. The system also includes an analysis component to determine displacements between expected positions and actual positions of at least a subset of light spots in the captured image, and to characterize the eye based on the displacements.

The invention discloses a method for detecting spectacle lenses based on wavefront analysis. The method comprises a light source adjustment unit, a lens posture adjustment unit, a detection unit and asoftware module, wherein the light source adjustment unit is used to translate and rotate incident light; the lens posture adjustment unit is used to adjust initial vertex distances of lenses, a wearing view angle and facial radians of rings according to wearing parameters of a prescription for spectacles; the detection unit is used to detect an effective wavefront aberration of the lenses; the software module is used to set motion parameters of a motion platform and set detection parameters of a wavefront aberration sensor in the detection unit, and is used to receive, calculate and displayeffective wavefront aberration data of the detection unit. The method measures the effective wavefront aberration in high precision in a lens wearing state, and provides quantitative reference for designing and processing of the lenses and evaluation of optical properties and imaging quality.