Method for virtual adaptation of an implant to a body part of a patient

US8331634B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Karl Barth · Hochspeyer, DE
• Gerd Wessels · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 26, 2007
• Grant date: Dec 11, 2012
• Expiry date: Sep 2, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2219/2016
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method for virtual adaptation of an object to be medically inserted in a patient, to a body part of the patient, the object is shown in a desired view on a monitor, the body part is shown in 3D on the monitor, the body part in its unchanged 3D-imaging context, is automatically displaced relative to the object until the object is adapted to the body part with the orientation of the object relative to the monitor remaining unchanged.