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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1995
Christopher Allen Nafis, Rexford, NY (US);
Timothy Patrick Kelliher, Nassau, NY (US);
William Edward Lorensen, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Harvey Ellis Cline, Schenectady, NY (US);
David Egidio Altobelli, Wilmington, MA (US);
Ron Kikinis, Brookline, MA (US);
Robert David Darrow, Scotia, NY (US);
Charles Lucian Dumoulin, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An interactive surgery planning and display system mixes live video of external surfaces of the patient with interactive computer generated models of internal anatomy obtained from medical diagnostic imaging data of the patient. The computer images and the live video are coordinated and displayed to a surgeon in real-time during surgery allowing the surgeon to view internal and external structures and the relation between them simultaneously, and adjust his surgery accordingly. In an alternative embodiment, a normal anatomical model is also displayed as a guide in reconstructive surgery. Another embodiment employs three-dimensional viewing.