Patent ID: 9271870
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: A61B,A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method for cataract surgery on an eye of a patient using a pulsed laser surgical system, comprising: operating an imaging system so as to acquire image data from locations distributed throughout a volume of a cataractous crystalline lens of the patient and construct one or more images of the patient's eye tissues from the image data, wherein the one or more images comprise an image of at least a portion of the crystalline lens; identifying, using a computer system, an anterior capsulotomy cutting region based on the image data, the capsulotomy cutting region comprising an anterior cutting boundary axially spaced from a posterior cutting boundary so as to define an axially-elongated cutting zone transecting the anterior capsule; and operating the surgical system to direct a pulsed laser treatment beam in a pattern based on the anterior capsulotomy cutting region so as to create an anterior capsulotomy in the crystalline lens.