HipNav

HipNav was the first computer-assisted surgery system developed to guide the surgeon during total hip replacement surgery.¹ It was developed at Carnegie Mellon University.² The patented technology was licensed out of Carnegie Mellon by the founders of CASurgica, Inc. After several years of attempting to commercialize HipNav, the company ultimately folded. The founders of CASurgica later founded Blue Belt Technologies, Inc.

References

Digioia, Anthony M.; Jaramaz, Branislav; Nikou, Constantinos; Labarca, Richard S.; Moody, James E.; Colgan, Bruce D. (2000). "Surgical navigation for total hip replacement with the use of hipnav". Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics. 10 (1): 3–8. doi:10.1016/S1048-6666(00)80036-1.
Levison, Timothy J.; Moody, James E.; Jaramaz, Branislav; Nikou, Constantinos; Digioia, Anthony M. (2000). "Surgical Navigation for THR: A Report on Clinical Trial Utilizing Hip Nav". Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1935. pp. 1185–7. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-40899-4_126. ISBN 978-3-540-41189-5.

[1] Digioia, Anthony M.; Jaramaz, Branislav; Nikou, Constantinos; Labarca, Richard S.; Moody, James E.; Colgan, Bruce D. (2000). "Surgical navigation for total hip replacement with the use of hipnav". Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics. 10 (1): 3–8. doi:10.1016/S1048-6666(00)80036-1.

[2] Levison, Timothy J.; Moody, James E.; Jaramaz, Branislav; Nikou, Constantinos; Digioia, Anthony M. (2000). "Surgical Navigation for THR: A Report on Clinical Trial Utilizing Hip Nav". Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1935. pp. 1185–7. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-40899-4_126. ISBN 978-3-540-41189-5.

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