| US 7,549,746 B2 | ||
| Fundus observation device | ||
| Hisashi Tsukada, Tokyo (Japan); Hiroaki Okada, Tokyo (Japan); Yutaka Nishio, Tokyo (Japan); and Yasufumi Fukuma, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 21, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/689,141. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-082124 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0222945 A1, Sep. 27, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. A61B 3/14 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 351—206 [351/210] | 4 Claims |

| 1. A fundus observation device comprising:
a first image forming part having an illuminating optical system configured to emit illumination light onto fundus oculi of
an eye and an imaging optical system configured to detect the illumination light having reached said fundus oculi by the first
detection part, wherein the first image forming part forms a 2-dimensional image of the surface of said fundus oculi based
on the detection results by said first detection part;
a second image forming part having a light source configured to emit low coherent light with a wavelength which is different
from said illumination light; an interference optical generating part configured to split said emitted low coherent light
into the signal light directed towards said fundus oculi and the reference light directed towards a reference object and to
generate interference light by superposing the signal light having reached said fundus oculi and the reference light having
reached said reference object; and a second detection part configured to detect said interference light generated, wherein
said second image forming part forms tomographic images of said fundus oculi based on the detected results by said second
detection part;
an optical path combination and separation part configured to combine the photographing optical path formed by said imaging
optical system and the optical path of a signal light directed toward said fundus oculi so as to illuminate said signal light
onto said fundus oculi through said photographing optical path, and configured to separate said photographing optical path
from the optical path of the signal light toward said fundus oculi so as to superpose said signal light on said reference
light by said interference optical generating part;
an alignment optical system configured to project an alignment indicator on said eye to preliminarily adjust a device for
said eye; and
a controlling part configured to control said alignment optical system to terminate projection of said alignment indicator
on said eye before said illumination light is detected by said first detection part,
wherein said alignment optical system comprises a first alignment optical system which projects a first alignment indicator
on said eye for adjusting the focus of said eye, a first alignment light source configured to emit a first alignment light,
a split prism configured to split said emitted first alignment light into two light fluxes, and a first optical path-combination
part configured to combine said two light fluxes into an optical path toward said fundus oculi, further comprising a drive
part configured to detach said first optical path-combination part from said optical path toward the fundus oculi, and said
controlling part controls said drive part to evacuate said first optical path-combination part from said optical path toward
the fundus oculi, so as to prevent projection of said first alignment indicator on said eye.
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