20090099428 | Method of blood oxygen saturation by ophthalmic measurement - A method of performing a diagnostic characterization and assessment of a patients' eye is provided. The method comprising the extraction of measurement data relating to a predetermined portion of the eye, for example the fovea, at a plurality of wavelengths and fitting the extracted measurement data to a model of the eye, for example a linear adaptive model. The data subsequently analyzed to determine at least one of a common retinal behavior, a deviation from the common retinal behavior, and an oximetry value. In the case of the measurement data relating to the fovea of the eye then the oximetry value is indicative of the blood oxygen saturation of the choroid vasculature of the eye. Further analysis based upon storing the measurement data and/or analysis from each test allows for the changes within the patients eye to be established unlike prior art solutions, and identifying the changes with an element of the eye such as the retina, cornea, crystalline lens, etc. | 04-16-2009 |