Endure Medical Gives Extended Life to Ophthalmic Surgical Microscopes

The addition of the new ILLUMIN-I light module to a conventional ophthalmic microscope provides modern day red reflex.

 Cumming, Georgia/USA, 03.17.2009.

The Endure ILLUMIN-i Module Adapts to Most Existing Microscope

Endure Medical, Inc. (www.enduremed.com ) has taken the technology of the patent pending light delivery system and created a module that can be adapted to almost any microscope currently in the field. The modularity of the illumination system allows it to be retro-fitted to microscope systems with traditional illumination systems. 

This module is an innovative and potentially revolutionary way to illuminate the field under a stereo microscope to provide the best possible contrast, depth perception, resolution and red reflex.

The principal component of this concept is true optically co-axial, collimated, stereo illumination.  This is done for each viewing optical pathway for a stereo microscope.

Two beams of collimated light are projected onto the eye. The illumination beams maintain parallelism, no convergence, and eliminate any back glare or reflections originating from the objective lens.  This is vastly different from the conventional converging microscopes now in the market.

This system projects over-lapping circles as pictured below instead of the traditional single circular spot of illumination projected onto the target field, this system.

Light then bounces off the target field up back up into the microscope.  This image reflection passes back through the beam splitter plate, into the objective lens, and into the microscope system for magnification and viewing. 

The modularity of the illumination system allows it to be retro-fitted to existing microscope systems with traditional illumination systems. 

The design incorporates a modular system that utilizes a beam of collimated light for each optical axis or pathway, reflects this light off of a beam splitter plate set in the way of the optical axis, and maintains collimated illumination by being positioned below the objective lens of the system.  This design provides exceptional visualization and depth perception, as well as, outstanding red reflex for cataract surgery.  Because the light is optically co-axial, it does a better job of illuminating down into a cavity or opening.  Light coming in from off-axis cannot penetrate down into the opening as can co-axial light.  Due to the fact that red reflex is so optimized, less light is actually needed to provide ample visualization, thus resulting in a safer and more comfortable procedure for the patient.