Patent ID: 9039623
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An ultrasound eye imaging system to image a portion of a patient's eye, comprising: a positioning mechanism; a scan head attached to the positioning mechanism, the scan head comprised of at least an arcuate guide track and a transducer carriage that moves back and forth along the arcuate guide track; an eyepiece which maintains the patient in a fixed location with respect to the arcuate guide track; a transducer housing whose proximal end is mounted on the transducer carriage such that an axis of rotation of the transducer housing is aligned along a radius of curvature of the arcuate guide track; and an ultrasound transducer attached to the distal end of the transducer housing wherein the ultrasound transducer can rotate about a fixed point on the distal end of the transducer housing; wherein an ultrasound pulse is emitted by the ultrasound transducer along a direction perpendicular to an emitting face of the ultrasound transducer at a selected angle with respect to the axis of rotation of the transducer housing and in a plane defined by the arcuate guide track and its center of curvature.