Patent ID: 7425068

Claim:
A method for operating an ophthalmological analysis system having a slit projection unit for slit illumination of the eye and a Scheimpflug camera for recording digitized sectional images of the eye comprising: slit projection unit and Scheimpflug camera being mounted so they rotate jointly pivoting around an axis which is essentially coincident with the optical axis of the eye; in a first position of slit projection unit and Scheimpflug camera, a first recording of a first sectional image of the eye being made and stored as the first image data set; slit projection unit and Scheimpflug camera being pivoted rotating at least once and fixed in a particular subsequent position; in the particular subsequent position of slit projection unit and Scheimpflug camera, a second recording of a second sectional image of the eye being made and stored as the subsequent image data set; in a digital image data analysis device, a multidimensional description model of at least one component of the eye being derived through digital image data analysis of the different image data sets and stored as the resulting data set; and the resulting data set being output in suitable form to a data output device, wherein multidemensional description model of the at least one component of the eye includes a three-dimensional geometry of cloudiness of the eye lens, said cloudiness being a cataract, derived from image data sets, wherein, for the cataract recognition, the derived actual values of the cloudiness geometry are compared to comparison values predefined in the analysis system, the type of the cataract being classified as a function of the comparison result.