Method and device for visualization of positions and orientation of intracorporeally guided instruments during a surgical intervention
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Feb 10, 2004
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Jun 20, 2002
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Jul 3, 2001
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Jul 12, 2000
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In a visualization system and method for visualization of data that relate to a medical intervention at a patient, a surgeon has no visual contact with a surgical instrument but can visualize in the form of a projected geometrical shape by a visualization device, the geometrical shape corresponding to the position and orientation of the surgical instrument onto the body surface of the patient under which the surgical instrument is located with a characteristic of the geometrical shape indicating the distance of the surgical instrument from the body surface.
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