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Method and system for simulating surgical procedures

  • US 10,178,157 B2
  • Filed: 05/22/2015
  • Issued: 01/08/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A modeling system for assisting a medical procedure on a particular patient, comprising:

  • a medical imagery navigation systems and/or an image guided and robotic surgery system, said system including one or more computers; and

    a simulation system comprising;

    at least one computer;

    a display,a database connected to a computer system for storing actual medical images of the particular patient,an image generator including specialized software executing on the computer system to generate realistic dynamic images indicative of tissues representing actual biological tissues of the particular patient using said actual medical images for display on said display,the computer system executing software instructions to generate a user input interface to receive user input, anda user tool generator including specialized software executing on the computer system to generate a tool image of a surgical tool configured to dynamically interact with said dynamic images of tissues, in a manner indicative of an interaction of an actual surgical tool with actual biological tissues, based on said user input;

    wherein said simulation system interacts with said medical imagery navigation systems and/or an image guided and robotic surgery system to provide dynamic and interactive tissue models coupled with the patient specific imagery to assist a surgeon to perform an actual surgical operation.

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