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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2016
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Tobias Klinder, Uelzen, DE;
Eberhard Sebastian Hansis, Hamburg, DE;
Michael Grass, Buchholz in der Nordheide, DE;
Dirk Schaefer, Hamburg, DE;
Hanno Heyke Homann, Hannover, DE;
Christian Haase, Hamburg, DE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Minimally-invasive spinal inventions are often performed using fluoroscopic imaging methods, which can give a real-time impression of the location of a surgical instrument, at the expense of a small field of view. When operating on a spinal column, a small field of view can be a problem, because a medical professional is left with no reference vertebra in the fluoroscopy image, from which to identify a vertebra, which is the subject of the intervention. Identifying contiguous vertebrae is difficult because such contiguous vertebrae are similar in shape. However, characteristic features, which differentiate one vertebra from other vertebra, and which are visible in the fluoroscopic view, may be used to provide a reference.