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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2002
Sébastien Jutras, Montreal, CA;
Dominic Picard, Verdun, CA;
Pierre Couture, Montreal, CA;
François Poulin, Montreal, CA;
Louis-philippe Amiot, Hampstead, CA;
James Anglehart, Montreal, CA;
Sébastien Jutras, Montreal, CA;
Dominic Picard, Verdun, CA;
Pierre Couture, Montreal, CA;
François Poulin, Montreal, CA;
Louis-Philippe Amiot, Hampstead, CA;
James Anglehart, Montreal, CA;
Orthosoft Inc., Montréal, CA;
Abstract
A surgical device adapted for use with an image guided surgical system to facilitate monitoring inter-dependently mobile bone elements. A rigidly connected multiple-point anchor assembly is releasably engageable to at least two inter-dependently mobile bone elements and immobilizes the bone elements such that no relative movement therebetween is possible, and a complex rigid body comprising the immobilized bone elements and the multiple-point anchor assembly is formed. A trackable member is fastened to the multiple-point anchor assembly and comprises a detectable element adapted to be located and tracked in three dimensional space by the image guided surgical system, thereby defining position and movement of the complex rigid body.