William J Culman

US Patent:

20190200848, Jul 4, 2019

Filed:

Sep 8, 2017

Appl. No.:

16/326804

Inventors:

- Sunnyvale CA, US
Jeffrey M. DiCarlo - Austin TX, US
Brian D. Hoffman - Mountain View CA, US
William Jason Culman - Santa Cruz CA, US

Assignee:

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

A61B 1/00
A61B 1/06
A61B 1/04
G02B 27/10
A61B 34/35

Abstract:

A computer-assisted surgical system simultaneously provides visible light and alternate modality images that identify tissue or increase the visual salience of features of clinical interest that a surgeon normally uses when performing a surgical intervention using the computer-assisted surgical system. Hyperspectral light from tissue of interest is used to safely and efficiently image that tissue even though the tissue may be obscured in the normal visible image of the surgical field. The combination of visible and hyperspectral images are analyzed to provide details and information concerning the tissue or other bodily function that were not previously available.