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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2017
University of Iowa Research Foundation, Iowa City, IA (US);
Geb W. Thomas, Iowa City, IA (US);
Steven A. Long, Iowa City, IA (US);
Donald D. Anderson, Iowa City, IA (US);
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Iowa City, IA (US);
Abstract
An orthopaedic surgical simulator includes a bone (a simulated bone or cadaver bone). The simulator further includes a base, wherein the bone is operatively connected to the base, an optical system mounted proximate the base, wherein the optical system comprises at least one camera and provides a first view and a second view of an incision area associated with the bone. There are fiducial markers on a surgical wire to represent depth of the surgical wire when a tip of the surgical wire is not visible. The simulator further includes a computing device in operative communication with the camera and configured to track position of a surgical wire by determining position of the surgical wire using the fiducial markers on the surgical wire and to generate imagery based on a three-dimensional model of the bone and position of the surgical wire relative to the bone.