Patent ID: 9345621
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method for sequencing an ablation of a cornea of an eye to impose a defect-correcting prescription on the eye, the method comprising: providing the defect-correcting prescription, the prescription comprising a high-order optical correction; determining an ablation profile to impose the prescription on the cornea, the ablation profile comprising a first-segment profile and a second-segment profile, the second-segment profile corresponding to at least one high-order optical correction; and determining a sequence of laser-energy ablations to impose the ablation profile on the cornea, wherein the sequence comprises applying ablations corresponding to the first-segment profile prior to applying ablations corresponding to the second segment profile; providing a wavefront elevation map of optical aberrations of the eye, and determining the defect-correcting prescription in response to the wavefront elevation map.