SOFT SURGICAL TOOL USE

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
EYEDAPT	PHARMACIA CORPORATION	100 Route 206 North Peapack NJ 07977	soft surgical tool for use during cataract surgery;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A method for easily calibrating both the position of the tip of a surgical tool and the orientation of that tool includes attaching a tracking device capable of communication with the surgical navigation system to the surgical tool using an adapter, where the adapter has a known relation between the tracking device and the axis of the surgical tool. The method then performs a calibration process to calculate the position of the tip of the surgical tool and the position of the tracking device and orientation data for the surgical tool from the known relation between the tracking device and the axis of the surgical tool and from the tool tip position. Lastly, the method stores the position of the tool tip for the surgical tool and the orientation data within memory of the surgical navigation system so the position and the orientation of the surgical tool can be tracked by the surgical navigation system.