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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2006
Antony Hodgson, Vancouver, CA;
Kevin Bryant Inkpen, Vancouver, CA;
Carolyn Anglin, Calgary, CA;
Orthosoft, Inc., Montreal, CA;
Abstract
A method for locating a guide wire axis on a femoral neck comprises the steps of tracking a position and orientation of a femur; registering a frame of reference with respect to the position and orientation of the femur from a first registration probe mounted onto the femur in a predetermined configuration, the frame of reference having preoperative planned data pertaining to the femoral neck; digitizing femoral neck data with respect to the position and orientation of the femur from a second registration probe positioned onto the femoral neck at desired orientations; calculating a position and orientation of the guide wire axis with respect to the position and orientation of the femur as a function of the preoperative planned data and the femoral neck data.