COMPUTER AIDED SURGERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLACING MULTIPLE IMPLANTS

摘要

A method and an apparatus are described for placing multiple implants during a surgery, the apparatus comprising: a display for an image representing a patient's anatomy; a database of virtual implants from which a user selects; a tool for the user to manipulate in order to select the virtual implants from the database and place the virtual implants in the image at desired locations; and a positioning module for calculating a position of a first of the virtual implants with respect to a second of the virtual implants and allow the user to align the first and second virtual implants with respect to each other, for generating relative position data as a function of the calculated position, and for sending the relative position data to the display.