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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Biomed Eng. 2018 Jun 18;2:649–656. doi: 10.1038/s41551-018-0248-4

Figure 3. Docking of the instrument manipulator with the conical scleral port adaptor.

Figure 3

(A) The metallic conical port adaptor fitted over the standard 23 G valved trans-scleral port (Alcon Inc, Fort Worth, USA), adjacent to the standard fluid infusion line. (B) The sterile white conical tip of the instrument manipulator has docked with the conical port in and the 23 G pick (MedOne Surgical Inc, Sarasota, USA) can be seen as it is advanced towards the eye. The surgeon’s left hand was holding the ‘light-pipe’ endo-illuminator in the eye. (C) The surgeon’s view through the operating microscope with live intra-operative optical coherence tomography (OCT) feed (Rescan 700, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Jena Germany) showing a flap of epiretinal membrane (ERM) being elevated by the pick in the vertical scan (lower white arrow). The ERM can also be seen in the horizontal scan (upper white arrow).