Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for determining an angle between two parts of a bone
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Application No.: US15003876Application Date: 2016-01-22
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Publication No.: US10165998B2Publication Date: 2019-01-01
- Inventor: Karl Barth , Alexander Gemmel , Gerhard Kleinszig , Wei Wei , Markus Weiten
- Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
- Applicant Address: DE Munich
- Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Current Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Current Assignee Address: DE Munich
- Agent Laurence Greenberg; Werner Stemer; Ralph Locher
- Priority: DE102015201067 20150122
- Main IPC: A61B6/00
- IPC: A61B6/00 ; A61B5/107 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B6/12

Abstract:
A method and a system for determining an angle between two parts of a bone that are twisted relative to one another about the axis of a bone shaft. The system is particularly suitable for determining the antetorsion angle of a femur. In order to determine an antetorsion angle of a bone easily intraoperatively, a method with the following steps is proposed: establishing the position of a first orientation feature assigned to a first part of the bone, in particular a femoral neck axis, using an imaging method, establishing the position of a second orientation feature assigned to a second part of the bone, in particular a condyle tangent or a condyle plane, using an imaging method, and determining the angle, in particular the femoral antetorsion angle, from the positions of the two orientation features.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160213343A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN ANGLE BETWEEN TWO PARTS OF A BONE Public/Granted day:2016-07-28
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