Patent ID: 7083281

Claim:
Portable slit-lamp apparatus, including: a body; solid state lamp means and associated optics carried by said body for generating a narrow beam of light and projecting the beam onto the cornea of a patient's eye for reflection by structures of the eye, when the body is held at a suitable position in front of the eye; and means mounted in cooperation with said body and said solid state lamp means to detect a reflection of said narrow beam of light by structures of the eye and to make an image thereof, which image is, or is processable to provide, a digital record of said reflection; wherein the apparatus is able to be held in the hand of an operator; and wherein said associated optics include an elongated lens of uniform cross-section arranged with its axis generally aligned with said elongated lamp means, for focusing a light beam emitted thereby of elongated cross-section towards said cornea, as said narrow beam of light.