Treatment apparatus for a subretinal injection and method for assisting in a subretinal injection

• Main Authors: Hartkens Thomas, Eslami Abouzar
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.10.2017
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; DIAGNOSIS; 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 treatment apparatus for a subretinal injection into an eye includes a 3D imaging device configured to generate a 3D image of a retina and a choroid of the eye. The apparatus has a planning device for inputting at least one set position for an injection instrument to be used for the injection. The set position is a location indication in the 3D image. The apparatus includes a 2D imaging device to generate a surface image of the retina and supplement the image to form a supplemented image, via the 2D imaging device ascertaining in the surface image at least one location which, in the surface image, corresponds to the at least one set position indicated in the 3D image, and inserting into the surface image at least one mark that corresponds to the ascertained at least one location. A display device displays the supplemented image.