Improve the treatment of retinal diseases with LabVIEW FPGA

"Programming with LabVIEW FPGA allows us to adjust the timing and power of each pulse to meet our dual requirements for high speed and high accuracy." - Michael Wiltberger, OpTIMedica CorporaTIon

challenge:
Develop a high-precision system that automatically emits laser pulses based on defined modes for the treatment of retinal diseases

采用LabVIEW FPGA改善视网膜疾病的治疗

solution:
Create a controller for the latest PASCAL (Chip Scan Laser) laser coagulator with LabVIEW FPGA and intelligent data acquisition hardware.

Diabetic patients are prone to retinopathy, and more than 16% of diabetic patients develop retinopathy and eventually become blind. The traditional treatment of retinal diseases caused by diabetes has hardly progressed in the past 35 years. Photocoagulation therapy can improve the use of directional laser pulses to control the cutting of the marginal retina. Although this treatment can be extremely effective in preventing vision loss, it is very painful for patients and doctors.

The so-called photocoagulation therapy is to block the microangioma and abnormal blood vessel leakage by aiming to emit laser pulses. Due to the complexity and sophistication of the procedure, this laser aiming launch has been manually controlled by doctors through joysticks and foot switches for nearly 35 years, and can only emit one 100 millisecond laser pulse at a time. The whole operation is a painful process for doctors and patients: the laser treatment device can only 'burn' one point at a time, and one eye needs to 'burn' 2000 points, so the whole treatment usually takes The eyes are divided into 4 quadrants, ie 4 courses, each time between 12 and 15 minutes. Once a week, the patient takes a month to complete the entire treatment process.

Improve the treatment of retinal diseases with LabVIEW FPGA

At OpTIMedica, we design medical equipment to assist ophthalmologists in improving the course of retinopathy. We designed the PASCAL laser photocoagulation device to integrate the waveform scanning laser system to effectively improve treatment efficiency and reduce medical damage to patients.

Considering the convenience of development and the hardware certainty that FPGA can bring about rapid retinal scanning, we chose LabVIEW software and R series hardware to replace the original custom hardware equipment, and designed and developed PASCAL photocoagulation therapeutic instrument (mode scanning laser instrument). . NI RIO devices are FPGA-based customizable hardware platforms that are suitable for high-speed, accurate, real-time acquisition and control tasks, so the most critical control system is the one that acts as the 'brain' of the entire laser treatment platform. Using a graphical system design, OpTIMedica quickly completed the design, build and release of the device for a successful demonstration of potential investors.

Using an FPGA in this application also guarantees the flexibility of the hardware solution. It is not necessary to repeatedly check the same level of code in the process of applying for permission from the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) as in a processor-based system. In addition, Optimedica uses a programmable chip instead of a fixed ASIC, saving 30% of development time.

The revolutionary laser treatment platform based on NI RIO devices, through a high-precision, automated control system, assists the doctor in aiming to fire multiple laser pulses at a time in a certain pattern—that is, multiple 'burning' points at a time— Thereby speeding up the surgery and reducing the number of treatments. The control system of the new therapeutic device now automatically transmits up to 25 pulses of 10 milliseconds each time. In addition, the automatic transmission of multiple pulse waves can also ensure safety. The PASCAL system can greatly reduce the accidental risk of laser surgery on the fovea and reduce the loss of vision. From manual to automatic, from serial to parallel launch, the new laser treatment platform greatly improves the accuracy and safety of the procedure, reducing both the time of each treatment and the total number of sessions, not only reducing The pain of the patient also saves their time and money.

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