IMAGE GUIDED SPINAL SURGERY GUIDE, SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a guide for use in performing spinal surgery to prepare across a spinal disc and adjacent vertebrae an implantation space.

SOLUTION: The guide is associated with a computer controlled surgical navigation system employing an energy-detecting array to track positions of the guide in three dimensional space relative to a known reference point. The guide includes a body for providing protected access to prepare across the spinal disc and into the adjacent vertebrae the implantation space. The body has a passage adapted to receive a bone removal device for forming the implantation space through the body. At least one emitter array is attached to the body for use in identifying the position of the guide relative to the adjacent vertebrae. A system and method for using the guide in spinal surgery are also disclosed.

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