Total knee replacement

Author

Kienzle, Thomas C., III ; Stulberg, S. David ; Peshkin, Michael ; Quaid, Arthur ; Lea, Jon ; Goswani, A. ; Wu, Chi-hour

Author_Institution

Dept. of Orthopaedic Surg., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

1995

Firstpage

301

Lastpage

306

Abstract

Describes a computer-assisted surgical system which uses a calibrated robot. The authors consider: total knee replacement surgery; motivation for robotic systems in total knee replacement; system operation; CT scan and preoperative planning; femoral fiducial location; femoral component placement; tibial fiducial location and component placement; fixturing; immobilization of the knee; immobilization of the pelvis and ankle; fiducial identification and registration; landmark pins; center of the femoral head; robot system and calibration; calibration using a telescopic ball-bar

Keywords

biomedical equipment; bone; calibration; medical computing; robots; surgery; CT scan; ankle; calibrated robot; computer-assisted surgical system; femoral component placement; femoral fiducial location; femoral head center; fiducial identification; fixturing; knee immobilization; landmark pins; pelvis; preoperative planning; registration; system operation; telescopic ball-bar calibration; tibial fiducial location; total knee replacement; Bones; Implants; Joints; Knee; Leg; Prosthetics; Service robots; Surgery; Surges; Titanium;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0739-5175

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/51.391773

Filename

391773