Patent ID: 6159221
Filing Date: 2000-12-12
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
In a stereotactic apparatus for use in a medical procedure that also involves the use of medical imaging equipment having a cross-sectional imaging plane and a monitor which displays a patient cross-sectional image taken at the equipment cross-sectional imaging plane, in combination:an apparatus base member adapted to be placed in a fixed position relative to the equipment cross-sectional imaging plane and in the vicinity of a patient internal anatomical target of interest; andan image-conspicuous reference pattern supported by said apparatus base member and having a double-V platform configuration, said double-V reference pattern, when sectioned by the medical imaging equipment cross-sectional image plane, being shown on the medical imaging equipment monitor by section images that quantify the angularity of said reference pattern relative to the medical imaging equipment cross-sectional imaging plane.