Surgical system supported by optical coherence tomography

US6763259B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Carl Zeiss Stiftung · DE

Inventors

• Christoph Hauger · Aalen, DE
• Joachim Luber · Oberkochen, DE
• Michael Kaschke · Oberkochen, DE
• Margit Krause-Bonte · Aalen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 3, 2000
• Grant date: Jul 13, 2004
• Expiry date: Jan 28, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B90/36
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An OCT-supported surgical system includes an OCT module that includes a surface scanner, the position of which can be sensed by a position sensing unit, and an evaluation and display unit, which is connected to the OCT module and to the position sensing unit in order to be able to correlate a tissue-differentiated tomogram of a specimen sensed by the OCT module with preoperatively produced specimen data.