Patent ID: 9734632
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06F,G06T

Claim:
1. A system for planning brain surgery, comprising: a) a storage device configured to receive and store therein at least one pre-operative image data set of a patient's brain acquired using at least one imaging modality; b) a computer processor and associated user interface in communication with said storage device, said processor configured to: produce an image of a 3D volume of the portion of the brain containing one or more potential sulci entry points into the tissue and one or more targets in the brain to be approached from the at least one pre-operative 3D image data set and store the image of the 3D volume in the storage device; receive, through the user interface, the inputs including at least a list of one or more sulci entry points into the brain, one or more target locations to be approached, a first target location to be approached first, and a surgical outcome criteria to be satisfied by one or more surgical trajectory paths from the one or more entry points to the first one of the one or more targets; upon receiving the list of one or more sulci entry points, the first target to be approached and the surgical outcome criteria, compute one or more point-wise surgical trajectory paths from the one or more sulci entry points to the first target location with each point-wise surgical trajectory path passing through one or more associated waypoints between the one or more sulci entry points and the first target location to define one or more surgical trajectory paths from the one or more entry points to the first target location consistent with the surgical outcome criteria; store the one or more point-wise surgical trajectory paths in the storage medium and visually displaying the one or more point-wise surgical trajectory paths; and assign a score to the one or more trajectory paths to quantify how well the one or more surgical trajectory paths satisfy the surgical outcome criteria.