Patent ID: 7568800

Claim:
A spectroscopic fundus measuring apparatus, comprising: an illumination optical system having an illumination light source for illuminating a fundus; a light receiving optical system for receiving a wavelength-tunable light beam reflected from the illuminated fundus to photograph a series of spectral fundus images of different wavelengths; an image processing section for processing the spectral fundus images; and a storage section for storing the spectral fundus images, wherein the image processing section has a position correcting section for correcting the series of spectral fundus images photographed by the light receiving optical system to match the positions of the same parts therein, and an image analyzing section for calculating the spectral characteristic of each part in the spectral fundus images based on the series of spectral fundus images corrected in the position correcting section, wherein the storage section stores the spectral characteristics of the parts together with standard spectral characteristics of specific parts, and wherein the image processing section has a first grouping section for comparing the spectral characteristic of each part with the standard spectral characteristics of the specific parts to divide the parts into groups corresponding to the specific parts, wherein the first grouping section divides the parts into groups of retinal artery, retinal vein, macula area, optic nerve head and so on as the specific parts.