Assisted Guidance and Navigation Method in Intraoral Surgery

• US 20140234804A1
• Filed: 05/02/2012
• Published: 08/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eped Inc., Jerry T. Huang
• Original Assignee: Eped Inc.
• Inventors: Huang, Ta-Ko, Lyu, Zong-Han, Hsieh, Yu-Hsin
• Application Number:
  US14/347,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20140234804A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 433/215
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/105 Modelling of the patient, e.g. for ligaments or bones
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/2055 Optical tracking systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/365 augmented reality, i.e. correlating a live optical image with another image
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 34/20 Surgical navigation systems; Devices for tracking or guiding surgical instruments, e.g. for frameless stereotaxis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/032 Transmission computed tomography [CT]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/51 for dentistry
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/52 Devices using data or image processing specially adapted for radiation diagnosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/54 Control of apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 1/082 Positioning or guiding, e.g. of drills

Abstract

An assisted guidance and navigation method in intraoral surgeries is a method using computerized tomography (CT) photography and an optical positioning system to track medical appliances, the method including: first providing an optical positioning treatment instrument and an optical positioning device; then obtaining image data of the intraoral tissue receiving treatment through CT photography, precisely displaying actions of the treatment instrument in the image data, and real-time checking an image and guidance and navigation. Therefore, during the surgery, the existing use habits of the physicians are not affected and accurate and convenient auxiliary information is provided, and attention is paid to using the treatment instrument in physical environments such as a patient'"'"'s tooth or dental model.

Claims

1. An assisted guidance and navigation method in intraoral surgeries, which is a method using computerized tomography (CT) photography and an optical positioning system to track medical appliances, the method at least comprising:

(A) providing an optical positioning treatment instrument and an optical positioning device at an intraoral tissue receiving treatment;

(B) obtaining image data of the intraoral tissue receiving treatment through CT photography, obtaining a positioning relationship between the treatment instrument and the optical positioning device, making the image data and physical space generate correspondence through an algorithm, and then combining actions of the treatment instrument with the image data precisely; and

(C) real-time checking the image data and assisting guidance and navigation to perform a surgery on the intraoral tissue through movement of the treatment instrument at teeth receiving treatment.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the intraoral tissue receiving treatment is a patient'"'"'s mouth.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the intraoral tissue receiving treatment is a patient'"'"'s dental model.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein step (C) comprises switching a manner of checking the image data through a control device, switching that checking the image data does not vary with movement of the treatment instrument, or checking the image data varies with movement of the treatment instrument.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein step (C) comprises directly making check during a surgery on the intraoral tissue through real-time checking the image data.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein after step (B), the method further comprises step (B-1), using surgical planning software to combine the image data to plan a surgical planning data file.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the surgical planning data file made in step (B-1) is planned clinically by a doctor, to serve as a guide basis of the surgery of treating the intraoral tissue in step (C).

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the surgical planning data file made in step (B-1) is planned by a trainer and/or a trainee, to serve as an implementation assisted guidance and navigation basis of the surgery on the intraoral tissue in step (C).

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein, after step (B-1), the method further comprises step (B-2), transferring the surgical planning data file to make a surgical guide plate.