AVOIDING BLOOD VESSELS DURING DIRECT SELECTIVE LASER TRABECULOPLASTY

• Main Authors: SOLBERG, Yoram, LEMANN-BLUMENTHAL, Daria, MAKDASI, Eli, ELKAYAM, Daniel, SACKS, Zachary, VOLFSON, Sergey, DOBKIN-BEKMAN, Masha
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.06.2023
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRICITY; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PHYSICS; PROSTHESES; SURGERY; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

A system (20) comprises a radiation source (48) and a controller (44). The controller is configured to designate multiple target regions (84) on an eye (25) of a patient (22) for irradiation with respective amounts of energy, to cause the radiation source to irradiate at least a first one of the target regions, to identify a change in the eye by processing an image of the eye subsequently to causing the radiation source to irradiate at least the first one of the target regions, and to refrain, in response to identifying the change, from causing the radiation source to irradiate a second one of the target regions, which has not yet been irradiated, with the amount of energy designated for the second one of the target regions. Other embodiments are also described.