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Automated planning systems for pedicle screw placement and related methods

US10561466B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Sectra AB · SE

Inventors

Anders Hedblom · Linköping, SE
Rolf Scheiderbauer · Linköping, SE
Stefan Lindholm · Linköping, SE
Ludvig Mangs · Linköping, SE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 26, 2018
Grant date	Feb 18, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 7, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2219/2016
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, methods and circuits can perform automated pedicle placement planning on 3D image data sets of the spine using global and local coordinate axes systems and ray casting to identify a center of the vertebral foramen and a center of a solid vertebral body for the local coordinate axis system.

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