Patent ID: 7839494

Claim:
An ophthalmic surgical microscope for viewing the ocular fundus of the eye of a patient, the ophthalmic surgical microscope defining a viewing beam path and comprising: a microscope main objective and an optical assembly including an opthalmoscopic magnifier lens mounted so as to permit said viewing beam path to pass therethrough permitting examination of the ocular fundus; an OCT-system for recording images of said ocular fundus; said OCT-system providing an OCT-scanning beam and including a scanning mirror device for scanning said OCT-scanning beam; said optical assembly being arranged between said main objective and the ocular fundus for passing said viewing beam and said OCT-scanning beam toward the ocular fundus; said main objective and said optical assembly conjointly defining a microscope focal plane of said surgical microscope at the ocular fundus; and, a focusing device for focusing said OCT-scanning beam onto an OCT-scanning plane so as to provide an offset between said microscope focal plane and said OCT-scanning plane.