Patent ID: 8230866
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A method for treating glaucoma in an eye of a patient, the method comprising: providing a combined system comprising a surgical microscope, an OCT apparatus, and a laser treatment apparatus; imaging a part of the eye onto a spatially resolving detector using the surgical microscope of the combined system; recording an image of the part of the eye detected by the spatially resolving detector; storing the recorded image in a storage device; processing the stored image using an image processing device, wherein processing the stored image comprises: then acquiring a first OCT-image of the predicted volume portion of the anterior portion of the eye using the OCT apparatus of the combined system, wherein acquiring the first OCT-image comprises: treating the volume portion using the laser treatment apparatus of the combined system to direct a laser beam to the volume portion to modify material in the predicted volume portion of the anterior portion of the eye based on the first OCT-image.