Patent ID: 9339179
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: A61B,G02B

Claim Text:
1. An ophthalmologic device for examining one or more corneal tissue layers of an eye of a patient comprising: a long working distance microscope objective lens; an illumination system having a drilled mirror conjugated to an entrance pupil of the objective lens to provide an annular illumination on the eye of the patient; a pupil reimager to conjugate the drilled mirror to the entrance pupil of the objective lens; a coaxial fixation target system configured to project a fixation target on a corneal surface of the eye of the patient; an autoalignment system that images the fixation target, the autoalignment system moveable between a first position outside of an image path and a second position in the image path to transform the ophthalmological device from a confocal to a non confocal operating mode.