Patent Document ID: 9576353
Application ID: 12556795
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for verifying a relative position between at least two bone structures in an associated patient, the method comprising: recording a three-dimensional dataset which represents a relative position between the at least two bone structures; segmenting the three-dimensional dataset into at least two virtual segments, wherein each virtual segment comprises a three-dimensional representation of a respective bone structure of the at least two bone structures, and the at least two virtual segments exhibit a virtual fixed relative position between each other in the three-dimensional dataset; registering the at least two virtual segments with the at least two bone structures by virtually selectively shifting and/or rotating, using a computational unit, a position of each of the at least two virtual segments to obtain a virtual registered relative position between the virtual segments such that the virtual registered relative position between each of the virtual segments matches an actual relative position between each of the at least two bone structures in an associated patient; determining change-in-position data representative of an amount of the shifting and/or rotating selectively performed in the registering for matching the virtual registered relative position between each of the virtual segments with the actual relative position between each of the at least two bone structures in an associated patient; and verifying the relative position between the at least two bone structures by determining, based on the change-in-position data, whether the virtual registered relative position of the virtual segments after the registering matches a target relative position of the at least two bone structures.