A laser treatment apparatus for irradiating an affected part of a patient's eye
with a treatment laser beam to treat the affected part is disclosed. The laser
treatment apparatus includes treatment beam irradiation section including a first
irradiation optical system for irradiating the treatment beam; aiming beam irradiation
section including a second irradiation optical system for irradiating an aiming
beam, the second irradiation optical system being optically adjusted such that
sighting of the treatment beam is completed when the aiming beam forms a predetermined
shape on a reflection plane; image pickup section including an image pickup optical
system for imaging an area including the affected part of the patient's eye; sighting
detection section for processing an image of the aiming beam picked-up by the image
pickup section to detect a sighting state; movement detection section for detecting
movement in an optical axis direction of at least one of at least a part of the
image pickup optical system and at least a part of the irradiation optical system;
and determination section for determining a direction in which at least one of
at least the part of the image pickup optical system and at least the part of the
irradiation optical system is to be moved based on results detected by the sighting
detection section and the movement detection section respectively.