Patents Assigned to BrainLAB AG
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Patent number: 11495345Abstract: A system is disclosed for determining a coverage of a target anatomical structure by an electric stimulation field. The system includes a computer to acquire patient image data and the atlas data, determine, based on the patient image data and the atlas data, target structure position data describing a position of the target anatomical structure in the medical image of the anatomical body part of the patient. The system also acquires electrode position data and stimulation field data describing an electric stimulation field around the position of the electrode. The system also includes an electrode configuring device for adjusting an emission configuration of the electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Stefan Achatz, Bálint Varkuti
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Patent number: 11494984Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented medical method for determining a virtual flight-path (1) with respect to a virtual representation (2) of at least one anatomical structure, the method comprising executing, on a processor of a computer, the steps of:—acquiring, on the processor, patient image data describing at least one patient image showing at least one anatomical structure of a patient; —acquiring, on the processor, atlas data describing at least one model of the at least one anatomical structure; —determining, by the processor and based on the patient image data and the atlas data, representation data describing a virtual representation of the at least one anatomical structure; —acquiring, on the processor, requirement data describing at least one requirement for at least one flight-path (1); and—determining, by the processor and based on the representation data and the requirement data, flight-path data describing at least one virtual flight-path (1) with respect to the virtual representatiType: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Wolfgang Steinle, Nils Frielinghaus, Dominik Fischer, Christoffer Hamilton
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Patent number: 11495342Abstract: Disclosed medical data processing method for planning an external ventricle drainage placement, wherein the method comprises executing, on at least one processor (3) of at least one computer (2), the following steps: a) patient image data describing at least one image of an anatomical structure of a patient is acquired (S1); b) atlas data describing a model of the anatomical structure is acquired (S2); c) mapping data describing a mapping of the patient image data to the atlas data is determined (S3); d) spatial relationship data is acquired (S4) which describes a predetermined spatial relationship between at least one potential trajectory for placing the external ventricle drainage in the anatomical structure on the one hand and a surface of the anatomical structure on the other hand; e) entry point data is determined (S5) which describes the position of an entry point (13) of the external ventricle drainage on the surface of the anatomical structure based on the mapping data and the spatial relationship datType: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Uli Mezger, Rainer Birkenbach
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Patent number: 11471241Abstract: The present application relates to an optical observation device which is controlled in a sterility preserving manner, and to a corresponding controlling program and/or program storage medium. The optical observation device includes a main structure having at least one optical camera, a motorized support for positioning the main structure, and a control unit that receives a sequence of images from the at least one optical camera, searches a current image from the sequence of images for a trackable object, tracks the trackable object shown in the sequence of images subsequent to the current image, and controls the motorized support structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Sebastian Stopp, Johannes Manus
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Patent number: 11464502Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical instrument comprising a handle portion or mounting portion and a functional portion and/or tip, wherein a display device is provided on the instrument and includes or enables displays which serve to assist in image-guided and/or navigation-assisted surgery. It also relates to a method for navigating a surgical instrument, wherein its position is determined and tracked by means of a medical tracking system and the position data is processed within the framework of medical navigation by means of a medical navigation system, wherein displays for navigation assistance and/or for assisting in image-guided surgery are provided on the instrument or on an element which is positionally assigned to the instrument or fastened to the instrument.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Gregor Tuma, Timo Neubauer
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Patent number: 11458333Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for determining the pose of an anatomical body part of a patient's body for planning radiation treatment, a corresponding computer program, a non-transitory program storage medium storing such a program and a computer for executing the program, as well as a system for determining the pose of an anatomical body part of a patient's body for planning radiation treatment, the system comprising an electronic data storage device and acquire surface tracking data the aforementioned computer.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Hagen Kaiser, Jochen Veigel, Ivana Ivanovska, Pablo Aponte
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Patent number: 11460915Abstract: The disclosed method encompasses registering an augmented reality device such as augmented reality glasses with a tracking coordinate system associated with a position tracking system. This may be effected by different approaches, for example by using a distance measurement unit (depth sensor) of the augmented reality device to determine a position of the augmented reality device relative to an object in a medical environment such as in surgery or radiotherapy/radiosurgery. The object may additionally be tracked by the position tracking system so that on the basis of the distance measurement, a relative position between the augmented reality device and the tracking coordinate system can be determined in order to register the augmented reality device with the position tracking system. This registration allows displaying augmentation information in a desired context and/or at a desired location in the image of the medical environment captured by the augmented reality device.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Nils Frielinghaus, Christoffer Hamilton
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Patent number: 11443431Abstract: The disclosed method encompasses using an augmented reality device to blend in augmentation information including for example atlas information. The atlas information may be display separately from or in addition to a patient image (planning image). In order to display the atlas information in a proper position relative to the patient image, data the two data sets are registered to one another. This registration can serve for generating a diversity of atlas-based image supplements, for example alternatively or additionally to the foregoing for displaying a segmentation of the patient image in the augmented reality image. The disclosed method is usable in a medical environment such as for surgery or radiotherapy.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Sven Flossmann, Samuel Kerschbaumer, Nils Frielinghaus, Christoffer Hamilton
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Patent number: 11443441Abstract: A computer-implemented medical data processing method for determining a difference in position of an imaged anatomical body part of a patient, the method comprising executing, on at least one processor of at least one computer, steps of: acquiring, at the at least one processor, first patient image data describing a digital image of a first anatomical body part during a first phase of inspiration and the position of the first anatomical body part during the first phase of inspiration in a first reference system associated with the first image data; acquiring, at the at least one processor, second patient image data different from the first patient image data and describing a digital image of the first anatomical body part during a second phase of inspiration and the position of the first anatomical body part during the second phase of inspiration in a second reference system associated with the second image data; acquiring, at the at least one processor, position transformation data describing a transformatioType: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventor: Kajetan Berlinger
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Patent number: 11432881Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for navigating an anatomical body part, a corresponding computer program, a non-transitory program storage medium storing such a program and a computer for executing the program, as well as a system for navigating the anatomical body part, the system comprising an electronic data storage device and the aforementioned computer, and to a system for conducting medical navigation.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Ulrike Winkler, Robert Essenreiter, Stefan Hofberger
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Patent number: 11420076Abstract: The present application relates to a data processing method for determining the position of a soft tissue body part within a patient's body. The data processing method includes acquiring CT-image data including information about the position of the body part within a coordinate system assigned to a transportable CT-device, wherein the patient's body is positioned relative to the treatment device, and wherein the CT-device is configured to be positioned relative to the patient's body and/or relative to the treatment device, acquiring first transformation data including information about a first transformation between the coordinate system assigned to the CT-device and a coordinate system assigned to the treatment device, and determining, based on the CT-image data and the first transformation data, position data including information about the position of the body part within the coordinate system assigned to the treatment device.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Stefan Vilsmeier, Kajetan Berlinger
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Patent number: 11410317Abstract: A method for calculating a 3D representation of a vascular malformation of a vascular structure is provided. The method comprises: providing 2D X-ray image data of a vascular structure containing a contrast agent and having a vascular malformation, providing 3D image data of the vascular structure and transforming the 3D image data into transformed 2D image data, overlaying the 2D X-ray image data and the transformed 2D image data; calculating a correspondence between the 2D X-ray image data and the transformed 2D image data to determine a co-registration between the 2D X-ray image data and the 3D image data, determining in the co-registered 2D X-ray image data the vascular malformation, and calculating the 3D representation of the vascular malformation based on the determined vascular malformation of the co-registered 2D X-ray image data.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Kristin Paul, Robert Lucht
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Patent number: 11406473Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing an optically detectable and retro-reflective medical tracking marker, wherein electromagnetic energy is applied to at least one section of a retro-reflective surface of a marker structure in an amount that is sufficient to alter the material properties of the retro-reflective surface, such that the capability of reflecting electromagnetic radiation of the at least one section is reduced to a second capability of reflecting electromagnetic radiation. The present invention further relates to a corresponding retro-reflective medical tracking marker and a corresponding use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Andrew Ayala, Jimena Saldivar
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Patent number: 11398035Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for partitioning a medical image which encompasses acquiring a medical image of a surface of a patient and a surface of at least one object (embodied by image data), for example, by means of a 3D scanning device. Furthermore, a thermal image of the surface of the patient and the surface of the object is acquired (embodied by thermal data), for example, by means of a thermal camera. The medical image and the thermal image are fused (based on registration data), such that the image data is associated with the thermal data (embodied by association data). By analyzing the association data with regard to a specified condition (embodied by condition data), for example a condition related to a temperature threshold, a subset of the association data which fulfills the condition and describes a part of the medical image is determined (embodied by condition compliance data).Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Hagen Kaiser, Stefan Seifert
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Patent number: 11393098Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of segmenting a medical patient image using an atlas and relating the segmentation result to a model of possible geometric changes to the segmentation result (e.g. for correcting the position of the segmentation of anatomical structures) which consider for example anatomical limitations. The thus-related segmentation result may be used as a basis for changing and/or correcting the position, shape and/or orientation of at least parts of the segmentation result, e.g. by user interaction. The invention also relates to an atlas data set comprising information such as values of the variables of the model of possible geometric changes in relation to the positions of anatomical structures in the atlas.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Jens Schmaler, Andreas Giese, Andreas Blumhofer
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Patent number: 11340708Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented medical method, a computer program and a system (1) for controlling a display (6) in a medical environment based a user's (8) viewing direction and gestures performed by the user (8), particularly involving the use of AR-goggles (9).Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: BRAINLAB AGInventors: Stefan Vilsmeier, Christoffer Hamilton
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Patent number: 11317880Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented medical data processing method for determining an orientation of an electrode, the electrode being configured for electrically stimulating an anatomical structure of a patient and comprising a rotational orientation marker, the method comprising executing, on at least one processor of at least one computer, steps of: a) acquiring (S1.1), at the at least one processor, rotational image data describing two-dimensional medical images of the anatomical structure and the electrode, the two-dimensional medical images having been taken with a two-dimensional medical imaging apparatus during rotation of the medical imaging apparatus relative to the anatomical structure, the rotational image data further describing, for each of the two-dimensional medical images, an imaging perspective relative to the anatomical structure associated with the respective two-dimensional medical image; b) determining (S1.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: BRAINLAB AGInventors: Stefan Achatz, Swen Woerlein
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Patent number: 11295462Abstract: A medical data processing method, performed by a computer (2), for determining error analysis data describing the registration accuracy of a first elastic registration between first and second image data (A, B) describing images of an anatomical structure of a patient, comprising the steps of: —acquiring the first image data (A) describing a first image of the anatomical structure, —acquiring the second image data (B) describing a second image of the anatomical structure, —determining first registration data describing a first elastic registration of the first image data (A) to the second image data (B) by mapping the first image data (A) to the second image data (B) using a registration algorithm, —determining second registration data describing a second elastic registration of the second image data (B) to the first image data (A) by mapping the second image data (B) to the first image data (A) using the registration algorithm, —determining error analysis data describing the registration accuracy of the firsType: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: BRAINLAB AGInventors: Pascal Bertram, Elisa Garcia Corsico, Ivana Ivanovska, Birte Domnik
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Patent number: D950062Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: BRAINLAB AGInventors: Jerome Vuillemin, Elmar Schlereth
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Patent number: D963169Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Stefan Eckstein, Frank Ehnes, Elmar Schlereth