Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Anterior ocular segment optical coherence tomographic imaging device and anterior ocular segment optical coherence tomographic imaging method
-
Application No.: US15179511Application Date: 2016-06-10
-
Publication No.: US09808152B2Publication Date: 2017-11-07
- Inventor: Keiichiro Okamoto , Risa Higashita , Fushi Li , Makoto Kojima
- Applicant: Tomey Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-Shi
- Assignee: Tomey Corporation
- Current Assignee: Tomey Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-Shi
- Agency: Peacock Myers, P.C.
- Agent Jeffrey D. Myers
- Priority: JP2015-117991 20150611
- Main IPC: A61B3/14
- IPC: A61B3/14 ; A61B3/00 ; A61B3/117 ; A61B3/10 ; G06T7/12

Abstract:
An anterior ocular segment optical coherence tomographic imaging device and an anterior ocular segment optical coherence tomographic imaging method that can accurately analyze the shape of a crystalline lens by identifying the boundary of each layer of the crystalline lens in a tomographic image of an anterior ocular segment of a subject's eye, which is taken by optical coherence tomography. A layer boundary detector calculates brightness gradients from brightness values in a tomographic image of an anterior ocular segment of a subject's eye, which is taken by optical coherence tomography, in a depth direction of the tomographic image from a cornea to a retina, detect edges b1, b2, b3, and b4 that are larger than a predetermined threshold, and identify a boundary of each layer of the crystalline lens L from positions of the edge b1, b2, b3, and b4.
Public/Granted literature
Information query