Ophthalmologic apparatus and method of controlling the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11141060-B2
Application number	US-201916377263-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2019
Priority date	Jan 16, 2019
Publication date	Oct 12, 2021
Grant date	Oct 12, 2021

Abstract

An ophthalmologic apparatus of embodiments includes an OCT unit, an acquisition unit, and a specifying unit. The OCT unit is configured to acquire a tomographic image of a subject's eye using optical coherence tomography. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a front image of the subject's eye. The specifying unit is configured to specify shape of a tissue of the subject's eye based on the tomographic image acquired by the OCT unit and the front image acquired by the acquisition unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An ophthalmologic apparatus comprising:
an OCT unit including an OCT scanner and configured to acquire a tomographic image of a subject's eye using optical coherence tomography;
an acquisition unit including circuitry configured to capture or receive a front image of the subject's eye;
processing circuitry configured as a specifying unit configured to specify shape of a tissue of the subject's eye based on the tomographic image acquired by the OCT unit and the front image acquired by the acquisition unit;
the processing circuitry further configured as a registration unit to perform registration between the subject's eye and the OCT unit; and
the processing circuitry further configured as a displacement specifying unit that specifies a displacement between an eyeball optical axis of the subject's eye and a measurement optical axis of the OCT unit based on the front image of the subject's eye acquired by the acquisition unit after registration is performed by the registration unit, wherein
the specifying unit is further configured to
specify the shape of the tissue based on the displacement specified by the displacement specifying unit,
generate an optical system model based on a biometric data of the subject's eye and the displacement specified by the displacement specifying unit,
correct the tomographic image based on the displacement specified by the displacement specifying unit,
specify a predetermined layer region in the tomographic image corrected by the correction unit,
obtain shape data representing a shape of the predetermined layer region,
perform ray tracing processing on measurement light for performing optical coherence tomography using the generated optical system model, and obtain a coordinate position in a predetermined coordinate system corresponding to a position on a ray of measurement light, and
correct the tomographic image or the shape data based on the obtained coordinate position by transforming pixel positions of the tomographic image into pixel positions in the predetermined coordinate system.

2. The ophthalmologic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the specifying unit corrects the tomographic image or the shape data based on correction information and the displacement specified by the displacement specifying unit, the correction information being obtained in advance by performing ray tracing processing on the basis of two or more displacements on measurement light for performing optical coherence tomography.

3. The ophthalmologic apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
an alignment light projection unit including a light source and configured to project alignment light onto the subject's eye, wherein
the displacement specifying unit specifies the displacement based on a position of an image based on the alignment light in the front image and a characteristic position of the subject's eye.

4. The ophthalmologic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the shape of the tissue is a shape of a fundus.

5. The ophthalmologic apparatus of claim 4 , wherein:
the processing circuitry is further configured as a calculator that calculates a refractive power of a peripheral region of a region including a fovea of the subject's eye based on a refractive power obtained by objectively measuring the subject's eye and parameter representing optical characteristics of the subject's eye corresponding to the shape of the fundus specified by the specifying unit.

6. The ophthalmologic apparatus of claim 5 , wherein
the shape of the fundus includes a tilt angle of a predetermined layer region in the fundus with respect to a predetermined reference direction.

7. A method of controlling an ophthalmologic apparatus, the method comprising:
a tomographic image acquisition step that acquires a tomographic image of a subject's eye using optical coherence tomography;
a front image acquisition step that acquires a front image of the subject's eye;
a specifying step that specifies shape of a tissue of the subject's eye based on the tomographic image acquired in the tomographic image acquisition step and the front image acquired in the front image acquisition step;
a registration step that performs registration between the subject's eye and an OCT optical system for performing optical coherence tomography; and
a displacement specifying step that specifies a displacement between an eyeball optical axis of the subject's eye and a measurement optical axis of the OCT optical system based on the front image of the subject's eye acquired in the front acquisition step after registration in the registration step, wherein
the specifying step further includes
specifying the shape of the tissue based on the displacement specified in the displacement specifying step,
generating an optical system model based on a biometric data of the subject's eye and the displacement specified by the displacement specifying step,
correcting the tomographic image based on the displacement specified in the displacement specifying step,
specifying a predetermined layer region in the tomographic image corrected in the correcting,
obtaining shape data representing a shape of the predetermined layer region based on the shape of the predetermined layer region, and
performing ray tracing processing using the generated optical system model and to correct the tomographic image or the shape data by transforming pixel positions of the tomographic image into pixel positions in a predetermined coordinate system.

8. An ophthalmologic apparatus comprising:
an OCT unit including an OCT scanner and configured to acquire a tomographic image of a subject's eye using optical coherence tomography;
an acquisition unit including circuitry configured to capture or receive a front image of the subject's eye;
processing circuitry configured as a specifying unit configured to specify shape of a tissue of the subject's eye based on the tomographic image acquired by the OCT unit and the front image acquired by the acquisition unit;
the processing circuitry further configured as a registration unit to perform registration between the subject's eye and the OCT unit; and
the processing circuitry further configured as a displacement specifying unit that specifies a displacement between an eyeball optical axis of the subject's eye and a measurement optical axis of the OCT unit based on the front image of the subject's eye acquired by the acquisition unit after registration is performed by the registration unit, wherein
the specifying unit is further configured to
specify the shape of the tissue based on the displacement specified by the displacement specifying unit,
generate an optical system model based on a biometric data of the subject's eye and the displacement specified by the displacement specifying unit,
specify a predetermined layer region in the tomographic image,
correct shape data representing a shape of the predetermined layer region based on the displacement specified by the displacement specifying unit,
perform ray tracing processing based on the displacement specified by the displacement specifying unit on measurement light for performing optical coherence tomography and using the generated optical system model and to correct the tomographic image or the shape data by transforming pixel positions of the tomographic image into pixel positions in a predetermined coordinate system to a position on the ray of measurement light, and
correct the tomographic image of the shape data based on the obtained coordinate position.

9. A method of controlling an ophthalmologic apparatus, the method comprising:
a tomographic image acquisition step that acquires a tomographic image of a subject's eye using optical coherence tomography;

Assignees

• Topcon Corp

Inventors

• Mino Toshihiro
• Liu Jonathan

Classifications

• A61B3/18

  Arrangement of plural eye-testing or -examining apparatus · CPC title

• A61B3/102 Primary

  for optical coherence tomography [OCT] · CPC title

• A61B3/107

  for determining the shape or measuring the curvature of the cornea · CPC title

• A61B3/13

  Ophthalmic microscopes · CPC title

• A61B3/103

  for determining refraction, e.g. refractometers, skiascopes · CPC title