Keratron
®
Scout Installation and Operating Manual
OPTIKON 2000
5 GENERAL
INFORMATION
5.1 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
The KERATRON
®
SCOUT is a
Modular “Computer Assisted
VideoKeratographer”
(also said CAVK in the literature) that, just like the
KERATRON
®
, is designed to measure the shape of the cornea and to represent it as
symbolic colour map of the corresponding axial or refractive powers, of its local
curvatures or of its elevations in several formats (corneal topography).
The KERATRON
®
SCOUT is made of:
•
a
Videokeratoscope (VK)
, for the acquisition of the image of mires reflected
on the eye,
•
either a table-top
Docking
Base
or a
OR Trolley base
for intra-operative use,
to power supply the VK and to communicate via Universal Serial Bus (
USB
) of
any PC (not included) to the VK itself
•
a selection of
Adapters
i.e. a
Slit Lamp Adapter and Cable
, a
Battery
Module
, and an
Head Rest.
These modules, with some additional accessories like a
Scout “far” Mires Cone
and
Sterile Sleeves
, can create a system to allow to get a corneal topography in one
or more of the following operating conditions:
•
On a generic Slit Lamp, with the Slit Lamp Adapter inserted into the hole for
accessories of the slit lamp itself and a supplied cable inserted between the
VK and the Docking base
•
Portable, with a specific battery module inserted under the VK and in the
docking base, and a head-rest inserted onto the VK.
•
Intra-operative, inserting the VK into a staff of the OR Troll base, with a weight
balanced arm, which both supports and power supply it
The VK carries 28 mires, which are shaped as back-lighted concentric rings,
alternatively 14 black and 14 whites, arranged into the internal conical surface of a
cone, made of transparent perspex, called
Mires Cone
which is removable and
which carries a opto-electronic couple, made of an IRED and a photo-transistor, set
at two opposite sides of its external edge.
Cod. 161204EN
5-1
2008-12-03 Rev.B