See the eye’s true colors and cornea to retina tissue differentiation like never before.
A Leap Forward in Slit Lamp Engineering
Born from unrestrained engineering and modern advances in tissue observation, the IBEX 2-Step Slit Lamp has upped the ante on what a doctor should expect in slit lamp microscopy.
IBEX’s 2-Step Slit Lamp optical system is a categorical improvement in converging optics. A sophisticated combination of wide-field eye pieces, prisms, lenses and specialized lens coatings create pure light transmission, stunning clarity and effortless fusion…plus a field of view second to none. It’s what modern stereoscopic observation should be.
Pushing ahead, IBEX’s (Slit Lamp) 4300K color temperature LED delivers new and high-contrast, homogeneous white light for substantial gains in slit lamp observation. These gains were once difficult, if not impossible to carry out with conventional illumination: increased tissue fluorescence, enhanced tissue differentiation, increased depth of field, shadow reduction, less temperature and second to none illumination intensity. It’s a leap beyond conventional tungsten and halogen illumination.
Breakthrough Color Temperature
Simply stated, IBEX’s LED driven 4300K color temperature breaks the barriers of conventional slit lamp observation. The homogeneous radiant white light delivers a host of observation gains including enhanced tissue fluorescence, better tissue differentiation, increased depth of field and shadow reduction – the latter is especially useful during increasingly popular indirect illumination.
Not familiar with color temperature? Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light, usually warm (yellowish), daylight (white) or cool (bluish). It’s measured in degrees of Kelvin (°K). During the past ten years the 3500K-4500K range has evolved as the color temperature of choice in today’s high-end operating microscopes and modern surgical suites for good reason: It creates superb contrast and enables surgeons to better differentiate tissue.
Stunning, Fatigue-Free Observation
The sophisticated optical system bends light in a manner that enables the visual cortex to easily view one fused image. This provides extraordinary fatigue-free observation without undue convergence headaches. It’s ideal for shared multi-physician settings, insuring that all users can embrace and enjoy modern slit lamp technology.
20mm Wide Field of View…Second to None
The exceptional 20mm field is useful when scanning within the anterior chamber, analyzing contact lens fit and for expanded views of the fundus.
Helicoid Eyepieces & Telescoping Eye Cups
The helicoid style eyepieces twist up and down for diopter adjustment and operate independent of the eyecups. This allows them to be left at proper position for your vision. Additionally, telescoping eye cups at the front of the oculars provide 18mm of eye relief, enabling users with or without eye glasses to experience the maximum field of view. How it works: Users wearing eye glasses push the cups in while users without eye glasses extend the cups outward. Both maximize the optical system to view the full image.
Superb Light Efficiency
One of the most significant advances in lens design during recent years is improved lens coating technology. Today’s coatings greatly enhance the way the optics reflect and transmit light. Ibex lenses embrace these advances and after painstaking and meticulous fine tuning of coatings, layer thicknesses and refractive indices, we minimized light loss, balanced output and increased brightness 20% to 60% compared to bare illumination. The result is robust, homogeneous luminance and sharp, edge-to-edge viewing virtually free of chromatic aberration.
Extraordinary LED Illumination
The single element LED is an evolution in slit lamp engineering. With high-contrast color temperature, impressive color rendering and exceptional illumination range of 24,420 lux to more than 1,000,000 lux, the IBEX LED is exceptional during direct, indirect and diffuse illumination.
With excellent ventilation and the latest heat managing materials, the IBEX LED will operate with consistency for 10,000-20,000 hours, virtually eliminating downtime due to spent illumination sources.
Further, to help improve patient comfort and safety during higher intensity observation, IBEX LED slit lamps minimize beam temperature and radiant energy with 80%-90% less heat to the patient’s eye, as compared to tungsten and halogen illumination.
Safety First – For Patients and Physicians
The Elimination of UV and IR
While the human eye is specifically designed to sense a small portion of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum (i.e. visible light), it is also susceptible to damage when exposed to high energy levels across the EM spectrum. IBEX’s illumination system utilizes a combination of proprietary technologies to block dangerous infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) light. These breakthroughs in UV and IR protection substantially reduce retinal irradiation during retinal visualization.
Fine-Tuned Spectrum
The output illumination optimizes irradiance within specific 460-470nm and 570-580nm wavelengths. The result is distinct peaks of irradiance for enhanced viewing of the anterior chamber plus added versatility of improved fundus observation.
Tower Design Versatility
IBEX’s tower illumination design provides 5-20 degrees vertical tilt towards the patient to move the slit below horizontal. This helps reduce shadowing during indirect illumination and illuminates the oblique muscle during gonioscopy. Additionally, a control knob conveniently located at the bottom of the tower enables quick left or right slit decentration (+/- 5 degrees), narrowly offsetting the tower to illuminate the sclera.
Specialized Diffuser
The external diffuser is standard and can be effectively used to spread and soften illumination within a particular region. It’s especially useful when photographing the anterior segment.
Standard Apertures Dial Slit Width and length 14mm (Continuous)
Slit Apertures 0.2, 1, 3, 4, 6, 10 and 14mm
Standard Internal Filters Cobalt Blue, Green (Red-Free),Neutral Density(0.50)
Industry First – IBEX Smart Leveling™ System
Finally, a simple and fast way to level your slit lamp – regardless of sloped floors or bent slit lamp arms. Just mount your IBEX slit lamp on your instrument stand – the same as always – then use the included hex key to turn the leveling screws. That’s it and the System is included as a standard accessory with every IBEX slit lamp. We’re the first to offer such a system at no additional cost.
The Environment
LED illumination not only provides a superior platform for our engineers to carry out highly customized and very specific performance standards, it also reflects our commitment to efficiency and reducing waste. Designed to last more than 10,000 hours, when compared to conventional incandescent and halogen bulbs that typically last 60-90 hours, there really is no comparison.
The LED converts 80% of electrical power into light, with minimal heat production. It’s very efficient while tungsten (incandescent) and halogen light, in contrast, convert only 20% of the electrical energy to light — the rest is lost to heat.