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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
May. 27, 2015
Carl Zeiss Meditec Ag, Jena, DE;
Abouzar Eslami, München, DE;
Corinna Maier-Matic, Neuried, DE;
CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG, Jena, DE;
Abstract
A surgery system comprises a camera obtaining camera images, an OCT system, a data memory storing geometry data of a surgical tooland a controller configured to identify a first portion of the tool in the camera images by object recognition using the geometry data; to determine, in the field of view, first locations where the tool is located and second locations aside of the tool; to trigger the OCT system to perform depth scans at the first and second locations; to identify a second portionof the tool in the depth scans by object recognition using the geometry data; and to generate a first imagerepresenting a third portionof the tool based on the geometry data and the depth scans.