Patent ID: 8292432
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. An ophthalmic apparatus comprising: a supporting device for a patient; an eye treatment device, which comprises a contact element for spatially fixing an eye of a patient with respect to the treatment device; a positioning device for shifting the supporting device and the contact element relative to each other to position the eye, before the eye is fixed using the contact element, at a predetermined nominal position relative to the contact element, the positioning device having a precision in lateral positioning of about fifty μm; and a detection device, which records a recorded image of the eye of the patient present on the supporting device and, on the basis of said recorded image, determines a first determined indication concerning a first relative shift of the supporting device with respect to the contact element, the first relative shift being required to move the eye toward the predetermined nominal position by movement of the positioning device.