Ali T. Alouani,Brian Lennon,Ben Neese,James Stefansic
申请号：
US13555144
公开号：
US20130030286A1
申请日:
2012.07.21
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
An apparatus and related methods using a variety of heterogeneous sensors to accurately track, in real time, the location of the tip of a surgical instrument inside the human body. The system accounts for real time changes in the surrounding environment during surgery, and when integrated with noninvasive image-guided surgery (IGS), this invention makes IGS possible and safe without tedious offline calibration. Sensors include, but are not limited to, optical, electromagnetic (EM), and sonar.
