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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1995
Kim H Manwaring, Ahwatukee, AZ (US);
Mark L Manwaring, Pullman, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A system (10) presents a graphic guidance object (46) in a display screen (40) to aid a surgeon in guiding a probe (12) from an initial point (82) relative to a body (14) along a desired trajectory (54) to a target (52). The graphic object (46) may be presented simultaneously with a live video image (44) from an endoscope and with tomogram images (42). The graphic object (46) includes a probe tip indicator (88) and a trajectory indicator (94). These indicators (88, 94) are positioned relative to one another to graphically indicate how far and in which direction to move a probe tip (36) to cause the probe tip (36) to intersect the desired trajectory (54). A roll orientation feature (118) and a distance-to-target feature (126) are included in the graphic object (46). The graphic object (46) changes in real time to track movement of the probe (12).