System Components; Overview - Brainlab CURVE DUAL System User's Manual

System Components

2.2 System Components
2.2.1

Overview

Terminology Unless otherwise specified, both the Curve Dual Display and Curve Single Display shall be re-
ferred to as "Curve system" in this user guide.
Similarly, unless otherwise specified, the carts for both the Curve Dual Display and Curve Single
Display shall be referred to as "Monitor Cart" and "Camera Cart" in this user guide.
Abbreviation UPS is used to abbreviate "uninterruptible power supply" in this manual.
General The Curve system is a navigation platform used for image guided surgery, consisting of:
Information
• A camera unit (see page 66)
• A medical computer unit for running software (see Technical User Guide)
• Touchscreen monitor unit(s) for displaying navigation and for user interaction with the software
Optical Tracking Optical tracking is achieved by a camera unit that emits and detects flashes of infrared light.
• Reflective elements, affixed to reference arrays on the patient and to instrumentation, reflect the
• Reflected signals from the reflective elements are captured and digitized by each camera lens
• The software uses the camera input to calculate the relative three-dimensional positions of the
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(see page 38)
infrared signals back to the camera unit.
from a different angle.
instruments and the patient reference arrays.
System User Guide Rev. 1.0 Curve Dual Display, Curve Single Display Ver. 1.0