Dr. Boothe Treatments
A method for surgical treatment of the eye by laser radiation comprising the steps of:
(a) passing one end of a fiberoptic element through a small perforation in an outermost encapsulating tissue of the eyeball thereof until said one end of said fiberoptic element penetrates into the eye's anterior chamber,
(b) transocularly advancing said one end of the fiberoptic element through the said anterior chamber until the penetrating end of said element is juxtaposed immediately adjacent eye tissue targeted for treatment,
(c) coupling the opposite end of said fiberoptic element to a photoablative laser emitting radiation above an ablative threshold fluence level to effect photochemical tissue interaction of photochemical ablation and focussing the radiation being emitted from the penetrating end of the transocularly-positioned fiberoptic element upon the targeted tissue, and
(d) then advancing the fiberoptic element and subjecting the targeted tissue to photochemical ablative photodecomposition from the radiation being delivered through the fiberoptic element to effect photochemical removal of said targeted tissue.