COMPOUND ASTIGMATIC MYOPIA OR HYPEROPIA CORRECTION BY LASER ABLATION

摘要

An apparatus (50) is provided for performing corneal refractive surgery by ablating a portion of a corneal surface of any eye. The apparatus includes a pulsed laser (100) for producing a pulsed output beam of light. A scanning mechanism (120) scans the output beam (110), and the output beam is operatively associated with the scanning mechanism such that the output beam may be scanned over a predetermined surface defined by a mathematically derived ablation layer boundary curve for each ablation layer. A controller (250) is operatively associated with the scanning mechanism so as to deliver output beams to the predetermined surface (160) such that center points of output beams may be disposed within the ablation layer boundary curve, on the ablation layer boundary curve, and outside, but within a predetermined distance from a nearest point on the ablation layer boundary curve so as to integrate the edges of the ablation layer boundary curve to more closely correspond to the desired ablated shape.