US 11,911,115 B2
Flat panel registration fixture and method of using same
Alexander Krull, South Boston, MA (US); Thomas Calloway, Pelham, NH (US); Rand Kmiec, Nashua, NH (US); Neil Crawford, Chandler, AZ (US); Norbert Johnson, North Andover, MA (US); and Gary Pinard, Manchester, NH (US)
Assigned to Globus Medical Inc., Audubon, PA (US)
Filed by GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC., Audubon, PA (US)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/556,097.
Prior Publication US 2023/0190220 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 34/20 (2016.02) [A61B 6/4233 (2013.01); A61B 6/4441 (2013.01); A61B 6/5211 (2013.01); A61B 6/547 (2013.01); A61B 90/39 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2046 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3966 (2016.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A registration fixture for use with a surgical navigation system for registration of medical images to a three-dimensional tracking space comprising:
a base frame adapted to be mounted over a flat panel detector of an x-ray medical imaging device;
a plate attached to the base frame, the plate having a first set of radiopaque markers embedded therein in a first predetermined pattern and a second set of radiopaque markers embedded therein in a second predetermined pattern;
a side frame having a plurality of optical tracking markers and adapted to detachably mount to the base frame without piercing a sterilizing drape to be interposed between the base frame and the side frame.