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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2024
Globus Medical, Inc., Audubon, PA (US);
Alexander Krull, South Boston, MA (US);
Thomas Calloway, Pelham, NH (US);
Rand Kmiec, Nashua, NH (US);
Neil Crawford, Chandler, AZ (US);
Norbert Johnson, North Andover, MA (US);
Gary Pinard, Manchester, NH (US);
Globus Medical, Inc., Audubon, PA (US);
Abstract
A registration fixture for use with a surgical navigation system for registration of medical images to a three-dimensional tracking space includes a base frame adapted to be mounted over a flat panel detector of an x-ray medical imaging device, and a side frame having optical tracking markers mounted to the base frame. The base frame includes a first set of radiopaque markers embedded therein in a first predetermined pattern and arranged on a plane, and a second set of radiopaque markers embedded therein in a second predetermined pattern also arranged on another plane, which is spaced from the first set of radiopaque markers. The side frame has a plurality of optical tracking markers and is configured to detachably mount to the base frame.