US 12,376,937 B2
Ophthalmic surgical microscope with stroboscopic illumination
Zsolt Bor, San Clemente, CA (US); Reza Khazaeinezhad, Lake Forest, CA (US); Mikhail Ovchinnikov, Dana Point, CA (US); Alireza Malek Tabrizi, Irvine, CA (US); and Keith Watanabe, Irvine, CA (US)
Assigned to Alcon Inc., Fribourg (CH)
Filed by Alcon Inc., Fribourg (CH)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/507,584.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/126,413, filed on Dec. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0183786 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 90/30 (2016.01); A61F 9/008 (2006.01); F21S 10/06 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); F21W 131/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 90/30 (2016.02) [A61F 9/008 (2013.01); F21S 10/06 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00982 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00994 (2013.01); F21W 2131/20 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ophthalmic system for visualization of interactions between ocular matter and a probe tip of a probe within or in contact with an ocular space of an eye, comprising:
a visualization tool having a field of view that includes at least a portion of the ocular space of the eye where the probe tip interfaces with the ocular matter, wherein the visualization tool defines a visualization axis; and
a stroboscopic illumination source configured to stroboscopically illuminate at least the portion of the field of view at an illumination frequency, wherein the stroboscopic illumination source defines an illumination axis,
wherein the illumination axis crosses the visualization axis in the portion of the field of view at an angle of about 15° to about 30°.