Surgical Navigation Enabled Imaging Table Environment
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsVernon Thomas Jensen, William H. Huber
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Abstract
A system for integrating radiolucent tracking sensors in a medical table, table mat, or surgical drape of a surgical navigation system, allowing the surgical navigation system to be less obtrusive in a surgery environment. A plurality of radiolucent magnetoresistance sensors are integrated into a table, table mat, or surgical draping of a surgical navigation system for improving surgical navigation workflow and eliminating image artifacts from intraoperative images. The plurality of radiolucent magnetoresistance sensors may be located within a table or adjacent to a table surface.
Claims17
A surgical navigation system comprising:
- at least one magnetoresistance sensor attached to at least one device;
- a plurality of magnetoresistance sensors integrated within a surgical navigation table environment;
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- at least one processor for determining the position and orientation of the at least one device.
A surgical navigation system comprising:
- at least one magnetoresistance sensor attached to at least one device;
- a magnetoresistance reference sensor rigidly attached to an anatomical reference of a patient;
- a plurality of magnetoresistance sensors integrated within a table or located adjacent to a surface of the table;
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- at least one processor for determining the position and orientation of the at least one device.
A medical table with embedded tracking technology for use in a surgical navigation system, the medical table comprising:
- a plurality of magnetoresistance sensors integrated within the table;
- wherein each of the plurality of magnetoresistance sensors are radiolucent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.