Patent ID: 7215990

Claim:
Operating system for carrying out surgical interventions on a patient, comprising: a storage device for storing image data of an organ of a patient that is invisible from outside; a surgical instrument for carrying out the surgical intervention; a position sensor, fitted on the surgical instrument, for detecting a spatial position of the surgical instrument; and a processing device i) for calculating a spatial relationship between a position of the surgical instrument located outside the body and the organ, which is represented by the image data, and ii) for repeatedly inserting a region of the image data that accurately correspond to the surroundings of the surgical instrument into a display device, the image data being adjustedly inserted to always assure that a center of a displayed image corresponds to an accurate current position of the surgical instrument with reference to the organ of the patient as the surgical instrument is repeatedly repositioned outside the body, so that as the instrument is moved the image data is positioned so that the instrument remains at the center of the display device.