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Fully automatic, robot-assisted camera guidance system employing position sensors for laparoscopic interventions

US6926709B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Johannes Bieger · Birkenfeld, DE
Rainer Graumann · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
Norbert Rahn · Forchheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 17, 2001
Grant date	Aug 9, 2005
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 5, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B2034/2051
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a method and operating system for conducting a surgical intervention, respective position sensors are mounted at a laparoscope and a surgical instrument used to conduct the intervention, and a navigation system is supplied with orientation information from these position sensors. Based on this orientation information, the navigation system automatically controls a robot arm, to which the laparoscope is mounted, to always maintain the surgical instrument in the field of view of the laparoscope.

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