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Sensing and avoiding surgical equipment

  • US 9,895,063 B1
  • Filed: 09/21/2016
  • Issued: 02/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • illuminating, by a light source, a portion of a surgical environment, wherein the surgical environment comprises tissue subject to a surgical intervention involving one or more surgical instruments, wherein the one or more surgical instruments include a surgical laser;

    receiving light from the illuminated portion of the surgical environment;

    determining a spectrographic content of the received light;

    determining whether the illuminated portion of the surgical environment contains a portion of the tissue or a portion of a non-biological foreign body based on the spectrographic content of the received light and in response to a determination that the illuminated portion of the surgical environment contains a portion of a non-biological foreign body, controlling the surgical laser to avoid interaction with the illuminated portion of the surgical environment.

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