System for translation of electromagnetic and optical localization systems

• US 6,235,038 B1
• Filed: 10/28/1999
• Issued: 05/22/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Medtronic Surgical Navigation Technologies
• Original Assignee: Medtronic Surgical Navigation Technologies
• Inventors: Hunter, Mark W., Kessman, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Philogene, Pedro
• Application Number:
  US09/429,568
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• Field of Search: 606/130, 606/129, 606/1, 606/79, 606/80, 606/96, 606/60, 606/61, 606/62, 606/104, 600/426, 600/414, 600/417, 600/429, 600/424, 600/407
• US Class Current: 606/130
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/2051 Electromagnetic tracking systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/2055 Optical tracking systems
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2034/2072 Reference field transducer attached to an instrument or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/0818 Redundant systems, e.g. using two independent measuring systems and comparing the signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/364 Correlation of different images or relation of image positions in respect to the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/3983 Reference marker arrangements for use with image guided surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/3995 Multi-modality markers
• 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 90/10 for stereotaxic surgery, e.g. frame-based stereotaxis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/36 Image-producing devices or illumination devices not otherwise provided for

Abstract

A system for utilizing and registering at least two surgical navigation systems during stereotactic surgery. The system comprises a first surgical navigation system defining a first patient space, a second surgical navigation system defining a second patient space, and a translation device to register the coordinates of the first patient space to the coordinates of the second patient space. The translation device comprises a rigid body, at least one component for a first navigation system placed in or on the rigid body, and at least one component for a second navigation system placed in or on the rigid body, in known relation to the at least one component for the first navigation system. The translation device is positioned in a working volume of each of the at least two navigation systems.

Claims

1. A system for utilizing and registering at least two surgical navigation systems during stereotactic surgery, the system comprising:

a first surgical navigation system defining a first patient space;

a second surgical navigation system defining a second patient space; and

a translation device to register the coordinates of the first patient space to the coordinates of the second patient space.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first navigation system is a line-of-sight navigation system.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the line-of-sight navigation system is an optical navigation system.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the second navigation system is a non-line-of-sight navigation system.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the non-line-of sight system is an electromagnetic navigation system.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the translation device includes at least one component for the first navigation system and at least one component for the second navigation system.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein a translation matrix between the at least one component for the first navigation system and the at least one component of the second navigation system is predetermined.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the first navigation system is an optical navigation system and the at least one components for the first navigation system is an optical element.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the second navigation system is an electromagnetic navigation system and the at least one component for the second navigation system is an electromagnetic element.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the second navigation system is an electromagnetic navigation system, and wherein the at least one component for the second navigation system includes at least one sensor.

18. The system of claim 9, wherein the electromagnetic element is a sensor.

19. The system of claim 9, wherein the electromagnetic element generates an electromagnetic field.

11. A device for registering coordinates of at least two navigation systems, the device comprising:

at least one component for a first navigation system placed in or on the rigid body; and

at least one component for a second navigation system placed in or on the rigid body, in known relation to the at least one component for the first navigation system,

wherein the device is positioned in a working volume of each of the at least two navigation systems.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the first navigation system is a line-of line-of-sight navigation system.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the line-of-sight navigation system is an optical navigation system.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the second navigation system is a non-line-of-sight navigation system.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the non-line-of sight system is an electromagnetic navigation system.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the first navigation system is an optical navigation system and the at least one component for the first navigation system is an optical element.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the second navigation system is an electromagnetic navigation system and the at least one component for the second navigation system is an electromagnetic element.