High resolution lenses for machine vision — standard and custom lens design
Laparoscopic Surgery enhanced by the use of Medical Imaging Lenses
High Resolution Lenses for machine vision, instrumentation, inspection and vibration-sensitive applications. Standard and custom hi-res lens assemblies.
Medical Imaging Lenses
Recently, the medical community at George Washington University Hospital watched as Vincent Obias, MD, Director of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, performed the nation’s first single-incision robotic laparoscopic surgery on the left colon. With the help of robotics, Dr. Obias performed a robotic left colectomy through a small incision in the belly button. This procedure had never been performed prior to this attempt in the United States.
This procedure is usually accomplished thru conventional laparoscopic surgery but this robotic surgery often results in less pain, fewer post-operative complications and often, the patient is able to go home sooner and recover more quickly.
Laparoscopic surgery involves the use of a telescope that allows the surgeon to illuminate and expose the surgical area. The telescope, usually 10mm in diameter along with a laparoscopic camera allows the physician to see inside the human body and carefully carry out the procedure.
One of the major limitations of minimal access surgery is the loss of depth perception. The surgeon works with an artificial two dimensional video picture available on the monitor. There is a need to develop some mechanism to improve depth perception or stereoscopic vision and the Medical Imaging Lens Assemblies by Universe Optics provides lenses in focal lengths ranging from 25.0mm to 50.0mm for manufacture of the laparoscopic. This technology is creating new possibilities in Laparoscopic imaging techniques.