Rayner, a global manufacturer of cataract surgery products, has launched a world-first spiral intraocular lens (IOL) designed using artificial intelligence (AI): RayOne Galaxy and Galaxy Toric.

Introduced at this year’s European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) congress in Barcelona, the RayOne Galaxy IOL comes to market 75 years after Rayner pioneered the first IOL with ophthalmologist and inventor Sir Harold Ridley.

However, unlike in Sir Harold’s day, this new lens was designed using a proprietary AI engine trained on patient outcomes, which the company said delivers “a continuous full range of vision with minimised dysphotopsia, achieved through a non-diffractive optic with 0% light loss’’.

Everyone has read about the life-changing potential of AI, but this is a real-world example of technology impacting the outcomes of patients, said Tim Clover, Rayner CEO. “RayOne Galaxy represents a next-generation technology in intraocular lenses to enable patients to see without spectacles.”

RayOne Galaxy is available in a wide range of toric powers and comes fully preloaded in the same single-use injector system as the RayOne family of lenses, said the company.