Sdgi Holdings, Inc.

Medtronic Navigation, Inc.

Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.

Mazor Robotics Ltd.

Danek Medical

Joseph Moctezuma

John B Clayton

Kevin Thomas Foley

Maurice Mell Smith

Victor D Snyder

Andrew Wald

Jerald Lamont Redmond

Justin Kemp

Shai Ronen

Nikhil Mahendra

Katharine E Darling

Craig Drager

Joseph Thomas Cilke

Wei-Shyang Yang

William F McKay

Steven L Hartmann

Laurent Verard

Matthew F Dicorleto

Scott Boden

Peter A Moskovitz

Joel S Hughes

Dany Junio

Eliyahu Zehavi

Aviv Ellman

Leonid Kleyman

David E Macht

Elad Ratzabi

Katherine M Puckett

Jeremiah R Beers

Dana Gazit-Ankori

Timothy M Conkin

Brad Jacobsen

John J Kappus

Bradley A Jascob

Thomas E Roehm, Iii

Matthew F DiCorleto

Laurent G Verard

Disclosed is a system for assisting in guiding and performing a procedure on a subject. The subject may be any appropriate subject such as inanimate object and/or an animate object. The guide and system may include various manipulable or movable members, such as robotic systems, and may be registered to selected coordinate systems.

System and method for registration between coordinate systems and navigation

Disclosed is a system for assisting in guiding and performing a procedure on a subject. The subject may be any appropriate subject such as inanimate object and/or an animate object. The guide and system may include various manipulable or movable members and may be registered to selected coordinate systems.

System and method for registration between coordinate systems and navigation of selected members

A system and apparatus is disclosed to automatically determine the identification and selected information relating to instruments. The identification information may be read or determined by various reader systems and then transferred for various purposes. The identification information may be stored on the instrument with a storage system or printing and/or recalled from a memory once the identification is made.

Automatic identification of instruments

Disclosed is a surgical navigation system for tracking an instrument relative to a patient. The system can track a portion of the patient, an instrument, and/or both relative to image data, a coordinate system, an atlas, a morphed atlas, or combinations thereof. The system can include a tracking device on the instrument to provide six degree of freedom information regarding the location of the instrument.

Method and apparatus for surgical navigation

A system for tracking a navigated instrument. The system can include a first elongated instrument and a second elongated instrument. The first elongated instrument can have a first proximal end and a first distal end. The first elongated instrument can be adapted to be positioned relative to an anatomy. The second elongated instrument can move adjacent to the first elongated instrument. The second elongated instrument can have a second proximal end and a second distal end. The system can also include at least one tracking device coupled to the second elongated instrument. When the second elongated instrument is in a first position, the at least one tracking device tracks the first distal end of the first elongated instrument, and when the second elongated instrument is in a second position, the at least one tracking device tracks the second distal end of the second elongated instrument.

System and method for navigated drill guide

A surgical navigation system for navigating a region of a patient that may include a non-invasive dynamic reference frame and/or fiducial marker, sensor tipped instruments, and isolator circuits. The dynamic reference frame may be placed on the patient in a precise location for guiding the instruments. The dynamic reference frames may be fixedly placed on the patient. Also the dynamic reference frames may be placed to allow generally natural movements of soft tissue relative to the dynamic reference frames. Also methods are provided to determine positions of the dynamic reference frames. Anatomical landmarks may be determined intra-operatively and without access to the anatomical structure.

A method for accessing the spine includes making an incision in the skin of a patient. The skin and tissue can be dilated, and a cannula inserted through the dilated skin and tissue. The cannula includes a distal end positioned adjacent a first working space that includes paraspinous tissue. The cannula can be repositioned through the incision to a second working space adjacent the distal end of the cannula.

Methods for percutaneous spinal surgery

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