| Autor: |
Nicole Sieber, Christian Lingenfelder, Madeleine Götz, Pauline Heine, Leonie Lichtner, Martin Hessling |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 851-854 (2021) |
| ISSN: |
2364-5504 |
| Popis: |
Background: In current vitrectomy, the surgeon guides the vitrectome and a rigid fiber light guide with one hand each. It would be desirable to have a free hand for other surgical instruments and maneuvers. Methods: In the feasibility study presented here, a 20 gauge vitrectome is equipped with a miniature white LED that could eliminate the need for the separate light guide and therefore free one hand. The functionality of the system is proved in a ping-pong ball filled with agar and an ex-vivo porcine eye. Results: The brightness of the approach appears to be sufficient without any realistic phototoxic retinal hazard while the functionality of the vitrectome, in combination with the LED, is still given. Conclusion: The combination of a 20 gauge vitrectome with a LED illumination unit was successfully tested. The approach can be transferred to small vitrectomes in the future |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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