Patent ID: 11911109
Assignee: DR. JOHN BERESTKA
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method of analyzing an eye of a patient which has been illuminated with a slit-lamp microscope, the slit-lamp microscope including an illumination system and an observation system, the illumination system to provide a line of light to illuminate the eye and the observation system including an imaging system including a camera configured to receive imaging rays produced by reflection of the line of light from the eye, the method comprising the steps of:
storing a plurality of images of the eye imaged by the camera while the eye was illuminated with the line of light, each of the stored images having at least one associated slit-lamp microscope characteristic;
receiving an image request;
providing a requested image based on at least one of the plurality of images, the image request, and the at least one associated slit-lamp microscope characteristic of the at least one of the plurality of images;
receiving an image request for a second image having the line of light focused on a second portion of the curved structure, wherein the line of light is displaced in at least one of an x-axis direction and a y-axis direction and in a z-axis direction; and
providing the second image based on at least one of the stored images.