Planning, navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive therapy

Abstract

Disclosed herein are planning, navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive therapy in which the planning method and system uses patient specific pre-operative images. The planning system allows for multiple paths to be developed from the pre-operative images, and scores the paths depending on desired surgical outcome of the surgery and the navigation systems allow for minimally invasive port based surgical procedures, as well as craniotomies in the particular case of brain surgery.

Description

[0001] Cross references to related patent applications [0002] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 800,155, filed March 15, 2013, entitled "PLANNING, NAVIGATION AND SIMULATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE THERAPY," which The entire content of the application is incorporated herein by reference. [0003] This application also claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 924,993, filed January 8, 2014, entitled "PLANNING, NAVIGATION AND SIMULATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FORMINIMALLY INVASIVE THERAPY," The entire content of this application is incorporated herein by reference. [0004] This application also claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 845,256, entitled "SURGICAL TRAINING AND IMAGING BRAINPHANTOM" (Surgical Training and Imaging of Brain Models), filed July 11, 2013, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety incorporated into this article. [0005] This application al...

AI Technical Summary

Problems solved by technology

However, one disadvantage of existing systems is that this information about tumor location and trajectory typically cannot be modified or interacted within the surgical suite, which results in additional information during surgery (e.g., vessels or critical structures that conflict with preselected trajectories). The limited use of this detail when the location of

Images