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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2008
Applicants:
Gregor Tuma, München, DE;
Mario Schubert, Landsham, DE;
Claus Shaffrath, München, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Brainlab AG, Feldkirchen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/103 (2006.01); A61B 5/117 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device for determining the aperture angle of a joint includes a detection device for detecting positions of joint components and/or positions of structures connected to or to be connected to the joint and a computational unit for ascertaining the aperture angle of the joint based on the detected positions.