Patent ID: 6434415
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A system for displaying relative positions of body elements during a procedure on a body, the system comprising:a memory storing an image data set, the image data set representing the position of the body elements based on scans of the body, and having a plurality of data points correlatable to a plurality of reference points for each of the body elements, the position of reference points of a particular body element relative to the data points for that particular body element being known; a reference system for identifying, during the procedure, the position of the reference points of each of the body elements relative to the reference points of the other body elements; a processor modifying the spatial relation of the data points of one body element relative to the data points of another body elements according to the identified relative position of the reference points during the procedure as identified by the reference system, the processor generating a displaced image data set representing the position of the body elements during the procedure; and a display utilizing the displaced image data set generated by the processor to display the relative position of the body elements during the procedure.