Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for image guided surgery

US8585598B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• InnerOptic Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Sharif Razzaque · Boulder, US
• John Martinie · Charlotte, US
• David Iannitti · Charlotte, US
• Andrei State · Chapel Hill, US
• Brian Heaney · Durham, US
• Allan Siperstein · Cleveland, US
• Kurtis Keller · Hillsborough, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 19, 2013
• Expiry date: Dec 21, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B33Y80/00
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Presented herein are methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for image guided surgery. The systems herein allow a physician to use multiple instruments for a surgery and simultaneously provide image-guidance data for those instruments. Various embodiments disclosed herein provide information to physicians about procedures they are performing, the devices (such as ablation needles, ultrasound wands or probes, scalpels, cauterizers, etc.) they are using during the procedure, the relative emplacements or poses of these devices, prediction information for those devices, and other information. Some embodiments provide useful information about 3D data sets. Additionally, some embodiments provide for quickly calibratable surgical instruments or attachments for surgical instruments.