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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2006
Mark R. Disilvestro, Columbia City, IN (US);
Jason T. Sherman, Warsaw, IN (US);
Sherrod A. Woods, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Mark R. DiSilvestro, Columbia City, IN (US);
Jason T. Sherman, Warsaw, IN (US);
Sherrod A. Woods, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
DePuy Products, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Abstract
A method and system for registering a bone of a patient with a computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system includes retrieving an image of the bone having indicia of the position of a magnetic source coupled thereto, determining first data indicative of the position of the magnetic source in a bone coordinate system, determining second data indicative of a correlation between a coordinate system of the image and the bone coordinate system based on the first data; and displaying an image of the bone based on the second data.