Patent ID: 8678590
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An ophthalmic imaging method for acquiring a tomographic image of a subject's eye based on interference light generated by interference between return light from the subject's eye irradiated with measurement light and reference light corresponding to the measurement light, the imaging method comprising: detecting a flick motion among motions of a subject's involuntary eye movement during visual-fixation, wherein the flick motion indicates an amount of displacement of the subject's eye per unit time equal to or more than a predetermined value; acquiring a three-dimensional tomographic image of the subject's eye in a case where an end of the flick motion is detected in the detecting the flick motion; and stopping acquiring the three-dimensional tomographic image in a case where a start of the flick motion is detected during acquisition of the three-dimensional tomographic image, and starting acquiring a three-dimensional tomographic image of the subject's eye over again when an end of the flick motion is detected again.