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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2015
University of Houston, Houston, TX (US);
The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX (US);
Marc Garbey, Houston, TX (US);
Brian James Dunkin, Houston, TX (US);
Barbara Lee Bass, Houston, TX (US);
University of Houston System, Houston, TX (US);
The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for real time laparoscopic navigation. Exemplary embodiments can comprise scanning a structure of interest internal to a patient to provide image data; generating a first three-dimensional reconstruction of the structure of interest based on the image data; annotating the first three-dimensional reconstruction of the structure of interest with a plurality of reference points; obtaining spatial coordinates of the plurality of reference points during a laparoscopic procedure; and generating a second three-dimensional reconstruction of the structure of interest based on the spatial coordinates.