Orlhodock - An Image Driven Orthopaedic Surgical Planning System

Abstract

The OrthoDock (Orthopaedic Docking) system allows a surgeon to interactively manipulate a graphic representation of a prosthetic in 3d image data in order to determine optimum selection and position. Precise position and orientation information, both relative and absolute, of the prosthesis in the tissue is determined by using integrated graphics and image processing. The system is the 3d image processing portion of the robotic surgery system known as RoboDoc 111.