Patent ID: 6168274
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
An ophthalmoscope having viewing optics through which, in use, an eye under examination is viewed, the optics having at least one light receiving element via which light from an eye under examination is received by the viewing optics, the ophthalmoscope further compromising image detecting apparatus for detecting an image of an eye under examination, wherein the image detecting apparatus is substantially centrally positioned on the ophthalmoscope and is so positioned relative to the light receiving element that, in use, light from the eye under examination which is incident on the image detecting apparatus is received by the latter at a position which lies in substantially the same horizontal plane as the light receiving element of the viewing optics, wherein said position at which the image detecting apparatus receives light is laterally spaced from the paths of light from the eye to the light receiving element or through the viewing optics.