Patent ID: 7284860

Claim:
A universal ophthalmic examination device for examination of the eyeground comprising, in combination with a central control unit: a light source in an illumination beam path directed to the eyeground being examined; at least one image recording and evaluating unit for documenting and/or for measuring at least partial areas of the eyeground; electronically switchable elements for beam path switching; an optical light manipulator which communicates with the central control unit and which being jointly controllable being arranged in the illumination beam path provided for the light for program-oriented modification of the intensity curve and/or time curve of primary light generated by the light source in a temporally defined relationship with the adjustments of an eyeground illumination and of an image recording and evaluation controlling; and a secondary light that is generated from the primary light by the modification being provided for simultaneously complete illumination of the eyeground for the purpose of recording images of measurable retinal structures and for selective light-induced stimulation of changes in the retinal microcirculation.