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As used herein, a "fixation" or “fixation device” refers to an apparatus, instrument, structure, device, component, member, system, assembly, step, process, or module structured, organized, configured, designed, arranged, or engineered to connect two structures either permanently or temporarily. The two structures may be one or the other or both of manmade and/or biological tissues, hard tissues such as bones, teeth or the like, soft tissues such as ligament, cartilage, tendon, or the like. In certain embodiments, fixation is used as an adjective to describe a device or component or step in securing two structures such that the structures remain connected to each other in a desired position and/or orientation. Fixation devices can also serve to maintain a desired level of tension, compression, or redistribute load and stresses experienced by the two structures and can serve to reduce relative motion of one part relative to others. Examples of fixation devices are many and include both those for external fixation as well as those for internal fixation and include, but are not limited to pins, wires, Kirschner wires (K-wires), screws, anchors, bone anchors, plates, bone plates, intramedullary nails or rods or pins, implants, interbody cages, fusion cages, and the like. |
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“Fusion” refers to a natural process of bone growth and generation in which two separate bones and/or bone fragments grow together as new bone grows when the two separate bones and/or bone fragments contact each other. Often, fusion is facilitated by compression of the two separate bones and/or bone fragments towards each other. |
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As used herein, "image registration" refers to a method, process, module, component, apparatus, and/or system that seeks to achieve precision in the alignment of two images. As used here, "image" may refer to either or both an image of a structure or object and another image or a model (e.g., a computer based model or a physical model, in either two dimensions or three dimensions). In the simplest case of image registration, two images are aligned. One image may serve as the target image and the other as a source image; the source image is transformed, positioned, realigned, and/or modified to match the target image. An optimization procedure may be applied that updates the transformation of the source image based on a similarity value that evaluates the current quality of the alignment. An iterative procedure of optimization may be repeated until a (local) optimum is found. An example is the registration of CT and PET images to combine structural and metabolic information. Image registration can be used in a variety of medical applications: Studying temporal changes; Longitudinal studies may acquire images over several months or years to study long-term processes, such as disease progression. Time series correspond to images acquired within the same session (seconds or minutes). Time series images can be used to study cognitive processes, heart deformations and respiration; Combining complementary information from different imaging modalities. One example may be the fusion of anatomical and functional information. |
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Since the size and shape of structures vary across modalities, evaluating the alignment quality can be more challenging. Thus, similarity measures such as mutual information may be used; Characterizing a population of subjects. In contrast to intra-subject registration, a one-to-one mapping may not exist between subjects, depending on the structural variability of the organ of interest. Inter-subject registration may be used for atlas construction in computational anatomy. Here, the objective may be to statistically model the anatomy of organs across subjects; Computer-assisted surgery: in computer-assisted surgery pre-operative images such as CT or MRI may be registered to intra-operative images or tracking systems to facilitate image guidance or navigation. There may be several considerations made when performing image registration: The transformation model. Common choices are rigid, affine, and deformable transformation models. B-spline and thin plate spline models are commonly used for parameterized transformation fields. Non-parametric or dense deformation fields carry a displacement vector at every grid location; this may use additional regularization constraints. A specific class of deformation fields are diffeomorphisms, which are invertible transformations with a smooth inverse; The similarity metric. A distance or similarity function is used to quantify the registration quality. This similarity can be calculated either on the original images or on features extracted from the images. Common similarity measures are sum of squared distances (SSD), correlation coefficient, and mutual information. The choice of similarity measure depends on whether the images are from the same modality; the acquisition noise can also play a role in this decision. For example, SSD may be the optimal similarity measure for images of the same modality with Gaussian noise. However, the image statistics in ultrasound may be significantly different from Gaussian noise, leading to the introduction of ultrasound specific similarity measures. |
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Multi-modal registration may use a more sophisticated similarity measure; alternatively, a different image representation can be used, such as structural representations or registering adjacent anatomy; The optimization procedure. Either continuous or discrete optimization is performed. For continuous optimization, gradient-based optimization techniques are applied to improve the convergence speed.(Search "medical image computing" on Wikipedia.com June 24, 2021. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Modified. Accessed June 25, 2021.) |
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"Register" or "Registration" refers to an act of aligning, mating, contacting, engaging, or coupling one or more parts and/or surfaces of one object in relation to one or more parts and/or surfaces of another object. Registering and/or registration can include two parts or surfaces of different object abutting each other and/or coming into close proximity to each other. Often, the one or more parts and/or surfaces of one object include protrusions and/or depressions that are the inverse or mirror configuration of protrusions and/or depressions of one or more parts and/or surfaces of the other object. |
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"Registration key" refers to a structure, surface, feature, module, component, apparatus, and/or system that facilitates, enables, guides, promotes, precision in the alignment of two objects by way of registration. In one aspect a registration key can include a surface and one or more recesses and/or features of that surface that are configured to fit within corresponding recesses, projections, and/or other features of another structure such as another surface. In one aspect a registration key can include a surface and one or more projections and/or features of, extending from, or connected to that surface that are configured to fit within corresponding recesses, projections, and/or other features of another structure such as another surface. In certain aspects, the features of the registration key may be configured to fit within, or in contact, or in close contact with those of the another structure. In one embodiment, when the two structures align the registration key has served its purpose. |
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"Shelf" refers to a narrow horizontal surface or structure projecting from a side, surface, structure, wall, cliff, or other surface of a structure. (Search "shelf" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Accessed 16 Aug. 2023. Modified.) |
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"Section" refers to a separate part, portion, or area of a structure, object, device, apparatus, or container. (Search "section" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Accessed 16 Aug. 2023. Modified.) |
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"Leg" refers to a part or portion of another structure. Often, a leg can be a narrow, elongated structure resembling a leg of a human. |
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As used herein, a "resection" refers to a method, procedure, or step that removes tissue from another anatomical structure or body. A resection can include an osteotomy that cuts through a bone or other tissue because the osteotomy still removes at least a minimal amount of tissue. A resection is typically performed by a surgeon on a part of a body of a patient. A resection is a type of osteotomy. (Search "surgery" on Wikipedia.com May 26, 2021. CC-BY-SA 3.0 Modified. Accessed May 26, 2021.) Resection may be used as a noun or a verb. In the verb form, the term is "resect" and refers to an act of performing, or doing, a resection. Past tense of the verb resect is resected. |
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“Anatomical structure” refers to any part or portion of a part of a body of a person, animal, or other patient. Examples of anatomical structures, include but are not limited to, a bone, bones, soft tissue, a joint, joints, a tissue surface, a protrusion, a recess, an opening, skin, hard tissue, teeth, mouth, eyes, hair, nails, fingers, toes, legs, arms, torso, vertebrae, ligaments, tendons, organs, or the like. |
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"Anatomical reference” refers to any reference(s) that is, or is on, or is in, or is otherwise associated, with an anatomical structure. Examples of anatomical structures, include but are not limited to, a bone, bones, soft tissue, a joint, joints, skin, hard tissue, teeth, mouth, eyes, hair, nails, fingers, toes, legs, arms, torso, vertebrae, ligaments, tendons, organs, a hole, a post, a plurality of holes, a plurality of posts, a fastener, a suture, a clamp, an instrument, an implant, or the like. |
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As used herein, a “condition” refers to a state of something with regard to its appearance, quality, or working order. In certain aspects, a condition may refer to a patient's state of health or physical fitness or the state of health or physical fitness of an organ or anatomical part of a patient. In certain embodiments, a condition may refer to an illness, pain, discomfort, defect, disease, or deformity of a patient or of an organ or anatomical part of a patient. (Search "condition" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2021. Web. Accessed 8 Dec. 2021. Modified.) |
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"Bone condition" refers to any of a variety of conditions of bones of a patient. Generally, a bone condition refers to an orientation, position, and/or alignment of one or more bones of the patient relative to other anatomical structures of the body of the patient. Bone conditions may be caused by or result from deformities, misalignment, malrotation, fractures, joint failure, and/or the like. A bone condition includes, but is not limited to, any angular deformities of one or more bone segments in either the lower or upper extremities (for example, tibial deformities, calcaneal deformities, femoral deformities, and radial deformities). Alternatively, or in addition, “bone condition” can refer to the structural makeup and configuration of one or more bones of a patient. Thus bone condition may refer to a state or condition of regions, a thickness of a cortex, bone density, a thickness and/or porosity of internal regions (e.g. whether it is calcaneus or solid) of the bone or parts of the bone such as a head, a base, a shaft, a protuberance, a process, a lamina, a foramen, and the like of a bone, along the metaphyseal region, epiphysis region, and/or a diaphyseal region. "Malrotation" refers to a condition in which a part, typically a part of a patient's body has rotated from a normal position to an unnormal or uncommon position. |
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As used herein, a "guide" refers to a part, component, member, or structure designed, adapted, configured, or engineered to guide or direct one or more other parts, components, or structures. A guide may be part of, integrated with, connected to, attachable to, or coupled to, another structure, device, or instrument. In one embodiment, a guide may include a modifier that identifies a particular function, location, orientation, operation, type, and/or a particular structure of the guide. Examples of such modifiers applied to a guide, include, but are not limited to, "pin guide" that guides or directs one or more pins, a "cutting guide" that guides or directs the making or one or more cuts, a placement, deployment, or insertion guide that guides or directs the placement, positioning, orientation, deployment, installation, or insertion of a fastener and/or implant, a "cross fixation guide" that guides deployment of a fastener or fixation member, an "alignment guide" that guides the alignment of two or more objects or structures, a "navigation guide" that guides a user in navigating a course or process or procedure such as a surgical procedure, a "resection guide" that serves to guide resection of soft or hard tissue, such as in an osteotomy, a "reduction guide" can serve to guide reduction of one or more bone segments or fragments, an "placement guide" that serves to identify how an object can be placed in relation to another object or structure, and the like. Furthermore, guides may include modifiers applied due to the procedure or location within a patient for which the guide is to be used. For example, where a guide is used at a joint, the guide may be referred to herein as an “arthrodesis guide.” |
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Those of skill in the art will appreciate that a resection feature may take a variety of forms and may include a single feature or one or more features that together form the resection feature. In certain embodiments, the resection feature may take the form of one or more slots or cut channels. Alternatively, or in addition, a resection feature may be referenced using other names including, but not limited to, channel, cut channels, and the like. |
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"Cross section" or "cross-section" refers to the non-empty intersection of a body in three-dimensional space with a plane, or the analog in higher-dimensional spaces. (Search “cross section” on Wikipedia.com March 7, 2022. Modified. Accessed Sept. 21, 2022.) |
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As used herein, "intersection" refers to a point, plane, line, or area where two or more other points, lines, planes, or areas each occupy the same space. |
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"Turn" refers to a bend or curve or change in trajectory and/or direction of a road, path, river, slot, channel, or the like. (Search "turn" on wordhippo.com. WordHippo, 2023. Web. Accessed 16 Aug. 2023. Modified.) |
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