Print Email Facebook Twitter Surgical drill system and surgical drill bit to be used therein Title Surgical drill system and surgical drill bit to be used therein Author Margallo Balbas, E. Wieringa, P.A. French, P.J. Lee, R.A. Breedveld, P. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Date 2007-01-18 Abstract Surgical drill system comprising a mechanical drill bit and means for imaging the vicinity of the drill bit tip, said means comprising: at least one optical fiber having a distal end and a proximal end, said distal end being located adjacent said drill bit tip, an optical processing unit, said proximal end of said at least one optical fiber being operatively connected to said processing unit, said at least one optical fiber directing light transmitted therethrough to the vicinity of said drill bit tip and collecting light reflected back from the vicinity of the drill bit tip, whereby an image in the vicinity of the drill bit tip is produced, wherein at least one optical fiber is housed within the drill bit. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b11bcda0-5a59-4c8d-8a73-672238f17b5d Publisher European Patent Office Source WO 2007006698 (A1) Is part of http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20070118&CC=WO&NR=2007006698A1&KC=A1 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type patent Rights (c) 2007 The Author(s) Files PDF WO2007006698A1.pdf 645.73 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b11bcda0-5a59-4c8d-8a73-672238f17b5d/datastream/OBJ/view