Alphatec Spine, Incorporated

Université Grenoble Alpes

Surgiqual Institute

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Grenoble

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Grenoble Alpes

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble

Philippe Augerat

Philippe Cinquin

Laurent Desbat

Jean-Charles Le Huec

Yannick Grondin

Estelle Duveau

Sylvain Besson

Marion Decrouez

Benjamin Spencer

Radiographic imaging system including: an x-ray transmission unit; an x-ray receiver unit; a plate made from a material opaque to x-rays and situated between the transmission unit and the receiver unit, the plate including at least four channels, each channel enabling a part of the x-rays emitted by the transmission unit to pass through the channel; and an image processing unit configured to determine the coordinates of the projected patterns and to calculate a position of the receiver unit from the coordinates of the projected patterns and from the coordinates of the channels.

Radiographic imaging system and method for positioning one such system

The invention relates to an X-ray imaging device including a rotary collimator having a region () which is opaque to X-rays, a first slot () and a second slot (), which are transparent to X-rays and extend in two different directions, passing through the opaque region, the collimator making it possible to determine the position of an element provided with X-ray sensors in an imaging system (FIG.).

Rotary collimator for determining the position of an element provided with sensors in an X-ray imaging system

A method for measuring the displacements of a vertebral column, a vertebra of the column including a location marker attached thereto and providing a location system with an orientation of the location marker, the method including: a detection of an initial orientation of the location marker associated with a vertebra, a determination of an initial orientation of a vertebral plane parallel to at least one end plate of the vertebra, and a calculation of a geometric transformation associated with the vertebra correlating the initial orientation of the vertebral plane with the initial orientation of the location marker, a detection of the current orientation of the location marker, and a calculation of the current orientation of the vertebral plane of the vertebra from the current orientation of the location marker and the geometrical transformation associated with the vertebra.

Method for measuring the displacements of a vertebral column

A system for measuring the displacements of a vertebral column having a segment comprising at least one vertebra having a body delimited by an upper vertebral end plate and a lower vertebral end plate, and each vertebra in the segment having a location marker associated, attached thereto and providing a location system with an orientation of the location marker, the system including a localizer configured to detect the initial orientations of the location markers, and a microprocessor configured to determine, for each vertebra, an initial orientation of a vertebral plane parallel to at least one end plate of the vertebra, and to determine the current orientation of the vertebral plane of the vertebra from the current orientation of the location marker associated and the geometrical transformation associated with the vertebra.

System for measuring the displacements of a vertebral column

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Philippe Augerat