Medtronic Navigation, Inc.

Surgical Navigation Technologies, Inc.

Scott Shaver

Mark W Hunter

Bradley A Jascob

Bruce M Burg

Todd A Martens

John H Dukesherer

Nadim Yared

Gordon Goodchild

Frank Strupeck

Brandon D Larocque

Kirsten Boes

Kirstin Boes

Todd Martens

Paul Kessmann

A method and apparatus are disclosed that provides a system to perform a procedure on a patient or on a patient's anatomy. The apparatus can include a guide member that includes at least three degrees of freedom of movement of a guide or alignment portion. The apparatus can be used to guide or form reference points for a guide to resect a portion of an anatomy.

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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.

Method and apparatus for surgical navigation

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Thornton, CO, United States of America

Scott Shaver