Robert F. Labadie,J. Michael Fitzpatrick,Jason E. Mitchell,Gregoire S. Blachon,Jenna Toennies,Robert J. Webster, III,Thomas J. Withrow
申请号：
US13167964
公开号：
US08886331B2
申请日:
2011.06.24
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要：
A method and apparatus of percutaneous cochlear implantation (PCI). In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of (a) implanting a plurality of anchor members in a skull of a patient surrounding an ear of the patient, (b) attaching a docking frame to the plurality of anchor members, wherein the docking frame has a docking platform and a plurality of fiducial members, (c) acquiring a computed-tomography (CT) image of an area of the patients head including the ear and the plurality of fiducial members, (d) determining a centroid of each of the plurality of fiducial members and a trajectory for a PCI according to the CT image, (e) configuring a parallel robot by a computer processor according to the CT image such that a top platform of the parallel robot is aligned with the trajectory with respect to the centroids of the plurality of fiducial members, (f) attaching the configured parallel robot to the docking frame, and (g) performing the PCI using one or more surgical tools received by the top platform of the parallel robot.
