Patent ID: 7004935

Claim:
A system for treating an eye of a patient, the eye having a cornea and a pupil, the pupil having a center, the system comprising: a laser producing a laser beam capable of ablating the cornea; delivery optics in an optical path from the laser; alignment optics aligned with the delivery optics for maintaining alignment between the laser and the pupil of the eye; an input for designating at least one treatment center, the treatment center offset laterally from the center of the pupil when the pupil of the eye is aligned with the alignment optics; a controller comprising a tangible media that includes a standard ablation profile and a computer program that generates a treatment table based on the designated laterally offset treatment center and the standard treatment profile, the controller operatively associated with the delivery optics and the input, the controller configured to direct the laser with the delivery optics to effect the standard treatment profile centered about the designated treatment center according to the treatment table.