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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1997
Kazutoshi Kan, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Masakatsu Fujie, Ushiku, JP;
Ryuichi Shinomura, Higashimatsuyama, JP;
Koichi Sano, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Takeuchi, Matsudo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A surgical operating apparatus capable of a high-precision surgical operation while observing a detailed image of an affected part to be subjected to surgical operation and capable of observing a related location of the affected part under surgical operation by means of an image obtained the imaging of a wider range is provided with an operating table provided in an area made an object of measurement by an MRI apparatus so that a surgical operation can be performed by operating an operating manipulator by an operation input device while monitoring a local image from an endoscope and/or a ultrasonic scanner and the observation of a range in the neighborhood of the affected part and wider than an observing area of the endoscope is enabled by the MRI apparatus under surgical operation, thereby providing a high-security surgical operating apparatus.