Up to now reading glasses are the conventional treatment of presbyopia, an age related effect for every human. According to the Helmholtz theory the reason for the development of accommodative loss is a decreasing elasticity of the lens due to the increasing sclerosis. Since the ciliary muscle and the lens capsule remain active and elastic the whole life, a possible treatment could be the increase of the flexibility by creating gliding planes with fs-laser pulses. flexibility of ex vivo porcine as well as human donor lenses with a laboratory laser system. We will present new results with a compact 100 kHz repetition rate turn key laser system which speeds up the treatment time by a factor of 10. This will offer the opportunity for future clinical trials. Furthermore first in-vivo results on rabbits are presented.

Date Published: 11 February 2008
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 6844, Ophthalmic Technologies XVIII, 68440V (11 February 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.759132

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6844:
Ophthalmic Technologies XVIII
Bruce E. Stuck; Fabrice Manns; Per G. Söderberg; Michael Belkin M.D.; Arthur Ho, Editor(s)