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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2005
Filed:
May. 17, 2001
Applicants:
Johannes Bieger, München, DE;
Rainer Graumann, Höchstadt, DE;
Norbert Rahn, Forchheim, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B001/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a method and operating system for conducting a surgical intervention, respective position sensors are mounted at a laparoscope and a surgical instrument used to conduct the intervention, and a navigation system is supplied with orientation information from these position sensors. Based on this orientation information, the navigation system automatically controls a robot arm, to which the laparoscope is mounted, to always maintain the surgical instrument in the field of view of the laparoscope.