Concept for image-guided vitreo-retinal fs-laser surgery: adaptive optics and optical coherence tomography for laser beam shaping and positioning

Ben Matthias; Dorothee Brockmann; Anja Hansen; Konstanze Horke; Gesche Knoop; Timo Gewohn; Miroslav Zabic; Alexander Krüger; Tammo Ripken

doi:10.1117/12.2077606

20 March 2015 Concept for image-guided vitreo-retinal fs-laser surgery: adaptive optics and optical coherence tomography for laser beam shaping and positioning

Ben Matthias, Dorothee Brockmann, Anja Hansen, Konstanze Horke, Gesche Knoop, Timo Gewohn, Miroslav Zabic, Alexander Krüger, Tammo Ripken

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Proceedings Volume 9307, Ophthalmic Technologies XXV; 93070Z (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077606
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Fs-lasers are well established in ophthalmic surgery as high precision tools for corneal flap cutting during laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) and increasingly utilized for cutting the crystalline lens, e.g. in assisting cataract surgery. For addressing eye structures beyond the cornea, an intraoperative depth resolved imaging is crucial to the safety and success of the surgical procedure due to interindividual anatomical disparities. Extending the field of application even deeper to the posterior eye segment, individual eye aberrations cannot be neglected anymore and surgery with fs-laser is impaired by focus degradation. Our demonstrated concept for image-guided vitreo-retinal fs-laser surgery combines adaptive optics (AO) for spatial beam shaping and optical coherence tomography (OCT) for focus positioning guidance. The laboratory setup comprises an adaptive optics assisted 800 nm fs-laser system and is extended by a Fourier domain optical coherence tomography system. Phantom structures are targeted, which mimic tractional epiretinal membranes in front of excised porcine retina within an eye model. AO and OCT are set up to share the same scanning and focusing optics. A Hartmann-Shack sensor is employed for aberration measurement and a deformable mirror for aberration correction. By means of adaptive optics the threshold energy for laser induced optical breakdown is lowered and cutting precision is increased. 3D OCT imaging of typical ocular tissue structures is achieved with sufficient resolution and the images can be used for orientation of the fs-laser beam. We present targeted dissection of the phantom structures and its evaluation regarding retinal damage.

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Ben Matthias, Dorothee Brockmann, Anja Hansen, Konstanze Horke, Gesche Knoop, Timo Gewohn, Miroslav Zabic, Alexander Krüger, and Tammo Ripken "Concept for image-guided vitreo-retinal fs-laser surgery: adaptive optics and optical coherence tomography for laser beam shaping and positioning", Proc. SPIE 9307, Ophthalmic Technologies XXV, 93070Z (20 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077606

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