Patent ID: 9241772
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A method, carried out by a computer, for preparing the reconstruction of a damaged bone structure using an implant, comprising: a) performing atlas segmentation on a structure dataset which represents a structure to be reconstructed, and determining one or more healthy objects and one or more defective objects within the damaged bone structure; b) determining a target structure by modelling replacements for the one or more defective objects within the damaged bone structure; c) selecting an implant on the basis of the target structure, and providing a shape dataset which represents the shape of the implant; d) positioning the selected implant in order to find an optimum implant position; e) determining whether or not the selected implant is a suitable implant, and returning to step c) if the selected implant is determined to not be a suitable implant; and f) exporting the suitable implant to a medical navigation process.