Patents by Inventor Alf Ritter

Alf Ritter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for assigning digital image information to the navigational data of a medical navigation system
    Patent number: 7587235
    Abstract: A method for assigning digital image information to the navigational data of a medical navigation system is provided. The method includes: producing digital image information from a digital image recording device for a patient being monitored by means of the navigation system; transmitting a signal from the image recording device to the navigation system when an image is produced, the signal including assignment information for assigning the image information to the navigational data which apply to the image information; and transmitting the image information from the image recording device to the navigation system, wherein the image information and the corresponding navigational data are assigned to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: BrainLAB AG
    Inventors: Henrik Wist, Alf Ritter, Mario Zeiss, Hanna Rotermund-Buwen, Helmar Werner Lang, Jörg Peter Strobel, Klaus-Peter Kreuzer
  • Method and system for generating three-dimensional model of part of a body from fluoroscopy image data and specific landmarks
    Publication number: 20060004284
    Abstract: A method for generating a three-dimensional model of a part of the body with the aid of a medical and/or surgical navigation system, comprising the steps of identifying to the navigation system landmarks on the part of the body that are characteristic of the model of the part of the body; obtaining at least two fluoroscopy image data sets for each of one or more predetermined, individual and delimited regions of the part of the body; ascertaining characteristic body part data by processing and combining the landmark positions and parameters of the fluoroscopy data sets; and generating a three-dimensional and positionally determined model of the part of the body from the characteristic body part data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Frank Grunschlager, Martin Haimerl, Rainer Lachner, Stefan Vilsmeier, Alf Ritter
  • Method for assigning digital image information to the navigational data of a medical navigation system
    Publication number: 20030139670
    Abstract: The invention relates to assigning digital image information to the navigational data of a medical navigation system, wherein:
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Henrik Wist, Alf Ritter, Mario Zeiss, Hanna Rotermund-Buwen, Helmar Werner Lang, Jorg Peter Strobel, Klaus-Peter Kreuzer