Brainlab Ag

Gunther Becht

Claus Schaffrath

Peter Drumm

Gerhard Kleinszig

Pete Reed

A device and method for registering a patient's hip, wherein the device includes markers and positioning elements which can be placed on characteristic points of the hip, and once placed on characteristic points of the hip, data for registering the hip can be ascertained from the position of the markers. The method includes detecting the position of the markers arranged on the device and ascertaining data for registering the hip.

Registering intraoperative scans

A vertebral spreading instrument for moving apart two vertebrae of a spine includes a plurality of spreading fingers and a spreading mechanism for adjusting a distance between the spreading fingers. The spreading mechanism includes a first and a second part, the first and second parts each including a respective marker trackable by a navigation system. Relative positions of the first and second parts change when the distance between the spreading fingers is adjusted, and different relative positions are unequivocally assigned to different distances of the spreading fingers.

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Dornach, Germany

Gunther Becht