Patent ID: 11896308
Assignee: ACUCELA INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. An OCT system to measure an eye of a user, the OCT system comprising:
a fixation target visible to the eye;
an OCT interferometer configured to measure thickness of a retina of the eye;
a plurality of light sources arranged to reflect from a cornea of the eye and generate a Purkinje image comprising reflections of the plurality of light sources from the cornea;
a sensor to measure a position of the Purkinje image reflected from the cornea;
a processor operatively coupled to the sensor to determine a position of the eye in response to the Purkinje image; and
a user input operatively coupled to the processor to trigger a plurality of processor instructions;
wherein a scanned region of the retina comprises dimensions across within a range from about 1 mm to about 3 mm and wherein a number of A-scans comprises from about 5000 A-scans to about 40,000 A-scans over a time within a range from about 0.5 seconds to about 3 seconds and wherein a safety pause is within a range from about 2 to 10 seconds.