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US 2017/0000505 A1Published application
Computer-assisted craniomaxillofacial surgery
AssigneeThe Johns Hopkins University
InventorsChad GORDON, Mehran ARMAND, Ryan MURPHY, Gerald GRANT, Peter LIACOURAS, Kevin WOLFE
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Abstract
A surgical system is provided. The system includes a reference unit, an implant and a detector. The reference unit includes a first trackable element. The implant includes a second trackable element. The detector is configured to provide at least one signal corresponding to a detected location of at least one of the first trackable element and the second trackable element.
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A computer-assisted surgical system, comprising:
- a reference unit comprising a first trackable element;
- an implant comprising a second trackable element;
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- a detector configured to provide at least one signal corresponding to a detected location of at least one of the first trackable element and the second trackable element.
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A computer-assisted, surgical method, comprising:
- attaching a reference unit comprising a first trackable element to a first anatomical feature of a being's anatomy;
- detecting a location of at least the first trackable element with a detector configured to provide at least one signal corresponding to a detected location of at least the first trackable element;
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- accessing a first computer-readable reconstruction of the being's anatomy, the first computer-readable reconstruction comprising a first updatable orientation, wherein the first updatable orientation is updated in response to the at least one signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.