Patent Document ID: 20080269588
Application ID: 11739513
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A navigation system for registering an image space to a physical space relative to a patient for a surgical procedure, comprising: a tracking system including a localizer and a tracking device; an intraoperative imaging system operable to acquire intraoperative image data of the patient; a processor operable to at least one of determine a position of the tracking device in the physical space, determine an intraoperative fiducial point in the intraoperative image data, determine a preoperative image data fiducial point in a preoperative image data, correlate the intraoperative image data and the preoperative image data with the intraoperative image data fiducial point and the preoperative image data fiducial point, or combinations thereof; wherein the preoperative image data is operable to be registered to the physical space based upon the intraoperative image data.