<p>A trackable medical instrument for use in a computer assisted image guided medical and surgical navigation systems that generate images during medical and surgical procedures, includes a guide member having an emitter array for being tracked by the system and a drive shaft contained within the guide member having a proximal and a distal end, the drive shaft being rotatable within the guide member while being fixable axially inside the guide member, the proximal end of the drive shaft having a first connector for interchangeably receiving at least on drive source, and the distal end having a second connector for interchangeably receiving at least one instrument tip.</p>
申请公布号
WO9926549(A1)
申请公布日期
1999.06.03
申请号
WO1998US24617
申请日期
1998.11.18
申请人
SURGICAL NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.;FOLEY, KEVIN, T.;MELKENT, ANTHONY, J.;CARROLL, CATALINA, J.
发明人
FOLEY, KEVIN, T.;MELKENT, ANTHONY, J.;CARROLL, CATALINA, J.