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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2017
Mako Surgical Corp., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Vernon Jensen, Draper, UT (US);
MAKO Surgical Corp., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Abstract
A robotic surgery method includes coupling a first element of a fluoroscopic imaging system to a first robotic arm fixed relative to an operating room. The first robotic arm includes a mounting fixture configured to be interchangeably coupled to a surgical tool and the first element of the fluoroscopic imaging system. The method further includes mounting a second element of the fluoroscopic imaging system in a position and orientation relative to the first element such that a targeted patient tissue structure may be positioned there between. The method further includes utilizing a sensing system and one or more sensing elements coupled to each of the first and second elements of the imaging system to determine a relative spatial positioning between each of the first and second elements of the fluoroscopic imaging system. The first and second elements of the fluoroscopic imaging system are a source element and a detector element.