Patent ID: 11908565
Assignee: MAZOR ROBOTICS LTD.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 24:
25. A method for long-term follow-up of bone-implant success in a subject, comprising:
(a) selecting an optimal implant from a plurality of potential implants based on (i) stress within the plurality of potential implants detected using finite element analysis of a virtual configuration of each of the plurality of potential implants virtually inserted into a preoperative image of a spine of a subject, (ii) calculated values of selected spinal parameters, and (iii) clinical data of the subject and from a database of similar cases;
(b) determining an acceptable long-term stress score of the optimal implant for the subject;
(c) intraoperatively inserting the optimal implant into the subject to yield a bone-implant system, the optimal implant being equipped with at least one mode of stress detection able to provide remote, real time measurement of stress on the bone-implant system;
(d) determining, at regular intervals of time post-operatively, selected spinal parameters by analysis of medical images and by finite element analysis of a field pattern of stress detected with the at least one mode of stress detection;
(e) providing real-time feedback of the selected spinal parameters and of the field pattern of stress to at least one of the subject and a surgeon; and
(f) measuring evolution of at least one of the spinal parameters and of the field pattern of stress of bone-implant system.