Kevin T. Foley,John B. Clayton,Anthony Melkent,Michael C. Sherman
申请号：
US13036939
公开号：
USRE044305E1
申请日:
2011.02.28
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
An apparatus and procedures for percutaneous placement of surgical implants and instruments such as, for example, screws, rods, wires and plates into various body parts using image guided surgery. The invention includes an apparatus for use with a surgical navigation system, an attaching device rigidly connected to a body part, such as the spinous process of a vertebrae, with an identification superstructure rigidly but removably connected to the attaching device. This identification superstructure, for example, is a reference arc and fiducial array which accomplishes the function of identifying the location of the superstructure, and, therefore, the body part to which it is fixed, during imaging by CAT scan or MRI, and later during medical procedures.
