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Device and method for carrying out surgical interventions on a patient

US7215990B2 · kind B2 · utility

18Cited by

3References

11Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Hubertus Feussner · Munich, DE
Rainer Graumann · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
Gerd Wessels · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 29, 2002
Grant date	May 8, 2007
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 14, 2023

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B2090/378
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An operating system and method for carrying out surgical interventions on a patient, having a storage device for storing image data of the patient, a surgical instrument, a position sensor fitted on the surgical instrument, and a processing device for calculating, the spatial relationship between the position of the surgical instrument and the organ which is represented by the image data, and for inserting the region of the image data that correspond to the surroundings of the surgical instrument at the correct position into a display device.

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