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Bausch + Lomb
Visualizes cataract
surgery with
SIMULIA
Without a doubt, it has helped us shorten our time to market, decrease our
development costs, and improve our product performance.
These outcomes are largely due to the development of deformable Simulation sees what
materials, including hydrophobic acrylic and silicone. When these can’t be measured
materials became available in the early 1990s, incision size Engineers at Bausch + Lomb have been using
decreased dramatically and positive outcomes skyrocketed. The Abaqus FEA from SIMULIA, the Dassault
new materials could be rolled, folded, and bent during insertion. Systèmes brand for realistic simulation, in
As materials evolved, the insertion process did, too, shifting from biomedical applications for about a decade. It
forceps to a tapering tube – similar to a syringe – that pushed the was first employed to model the
lens into the eye. Lenses are now being delivered through incisions conformation and deformation of contact
as small as 1.8 mm. lenses on the cornea; this helped predict lens
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