IP Library Granted Patent US 12,201,368
Granted Patent B2
US 12,201,368 · App. 18/166,186 · Granted Jan 21, 2025

Method and system for pre-operative implant sizing

Inventors: Jean-Sebastien Merette (Mont-St-Hilaire, CA); Ramnada Chav (Laval, CA)
Assignee: ORTHOSOFT ULC
A61B34/10A61B90/37A61B2034/102A61B2034/105A61B2034/108
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,201,368
App. No.
18/166,186
Filed
Feb 8, 2023
Granted
Jan 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
3775
USPC
606/102
Abstract

A system for sizing an implant for a patient pre-operatively comprises a processor unit. A non-transitory computer-readable memory may be communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for obtaining at least one radiographic patient image of at least one patient bone with a scale marker relative to the bone, the scale marker having a known geometry, setting a scale of the at least one radiographic patient image using the known geometry of the scale marker, generating a three-dimensional bone model representative of the at least one patient bone using the at least one radiographic patient image and the scale, identifying an implant size and/or an implant model using implant models and dimensions of the three-dimensional bone model based on said scale, and outputting the implant size and/or the implant model for the patient.

Claims (30)

1. A system for scaling radiographic patient imaging comprising:

a processor unit;

a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for

obtaining an overlap two-dimensional rendering of a non-patient three-dimensional bone model and a radiographic patient image of a patient bone,

scaling the radiographic patient image by a scale factor using a scale marker in the radiographic patient image,

generating a three-dimensional bone model representative of the patient bone by projecting the overlap two-dimensional rendering of the non-patient three-dimensional bone model on the radiographic patient image of the patient bone, and

outputting the three-dimensional bone model representative of the patient bone.

2. The system according to claim 1 , further including modifying the non-patient three-dimensional bone model using the radiographic patient image and the scale factor.

3. The system according to claim 2 , wherein modifying the non-patient three-dimensional bone model includes receiving a user input of rotation, translation and/or scaling of the non-patient three-dimensional bone model.

4. The system according to claim 1 , further including receiving a user input of rotation, translation and/or scaling of the overlap two-dimensional rendering, and updating in real-time the projecting of the overlap two-dimensional rendering on the radiographic patient image, based on the user input.

5. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising a screen display, and wherein projecting the overlap two-dimensional rendering includes displaying the overlap two-dimensional rendering on the radiographic patient image.

6. The system according to claim 5 , wherein displaying the overlap two-dimensional rendering on the radiographic patient image includes displaying the overlap two-dimensional rendering with plane indicators showing planes of the three-dimensional bone model.

7. The system according to claim 6 , wherein displaying the overlap two-dimensional rendering with plane indicators representative of planes of the three-dimensional bone model includes displaying the plane indicators as lines forming a window for each plane.

8. The system according to claim 5 , wherein the radiographic patient image is one of two radiographic patient images, and wherein displaying the overlap two-dimensional rendering on the radiographic patient image includes displaying the overlap two-dimensional rendering on the two radiographic patient images.

9. The system according to claim 8 , wherein a first one of the two radiographic patient images is in a sagittal plane of the patient, and a second one of the two radiographic patient images is in a frontal plane of the patient.

10. The system according to claim 1 , further including obtaining the non-patient three-dimensional bone model with a virtual scale marker positioned relative to the non-patient three-dimensional bone model to match an arrangement of the patient bone with the scale marker.

11. The system according to claim 10 , wherein generating the three-dimensional bone model representative of the patient bone includes using the virtual scale marker with said scale factor.

12. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising an X-ray generator and an x-ray detector.

13. The system according to claim 12 , wherein obtaining the radiographic patient image of the patient bone includes generating the least one-radiographic patient image with the X-ray generator and the x-ray detector.

14. The system according to claim 1 , wherein outputting the three-dimensional bone model representative of the patient bone includes outputting the three-dimensional bone model with an implant model overlaid onto the three-dimensional bone model.

15. The system according to claim 1 , further including obtaining the non-patient three dimensional bone model from an atlas of bone models.

16. A system for scaling radiographic patient imaging into bone model comprising:

a processor unit; and

a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for

performing an overlap two-dimensional rendering of a non-patient three-dimensional bone model,

obtaining at least one radiographic patient image of at least one patient bone with a scale marker relative to the bone, the scale marker having a known geometry,

setting a scale of the at least one radiographic patient image using the known geometry of the scale marker,

projecting the overlap two-dimensional rendering on the at least one radiographic patient image to generate a three-dimensional bone model representative of the at least one patient bone,

receiving a user input of rotation, translation and/or scaling of the overlap two-dimensional rendering, and updating in real-time the projecting of the overlap two-dimensional rendering on the at least one radiographic patient image, based on the user input, and

outputting the three-dimensional bone model representative of the at least one patient bone.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 8, 2023
From: MERETTE, JEAN-SEBASTIEN; CHAV, RAMNADA
To: ORTHOSOFT, INC.
Reel/Frame 062629/0199 →
CONTINUANCE Recorded Feb 8, 2023
From: ORTHOSOFT INC.
To: ORTHOSOFT ULC
Reel/Frame 062683/0244 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation 17064653 · Oct 7, 2020
Continuation 16156436 · Oct 10, 2018
Provisional Application 62570361 · Oct 10, 2017
Related Publication 20230181259A1 · Jun 15, 2023
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