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Hip Navigation System (HipNav)
Head: Anthony M Di Gioia, III, MD
Contact: Constantinos Nikou (costa@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
MRT Center
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
(412) 268 6553 (Jim Osborn, Executive Director)
(412) 268 6436 (FAX)

Associated center: MRTC
Associated lab/group: Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery

The Hip Navigation or HipNav system is being developed jointly by West Penn Hospital's Institute for Computer-Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (ICAOS) and Carnegie Mellon University to help reduce the risk of dislocation after total hip replacement surgery. The system allows a surgeon to determine the optimal, patient-specific location for an acetabular implant (socket portion of a hip implant), and guides the surgeon to achieve the desired placement during surgery.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Anthony M Di Gioia, III, MD - Adj Prof, CEE/Assoc.Res Profess,Robotics <tony@pfcusa.org>
• Kort Eckman - Senior Research Programmer <kort@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Branislav Jaramaz - Associate Research Professor <branko@icaos.org>
• [Home] Constantinos Nikou - Research Programmer (Adjunct) <costa@cs.cmu.edu>

• Surgical Navigation for Total Hip Arthroplasty
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, S. Blendea, and B. Jaramaz
  The Adult Hip, 2nd Edition, J.J. Callaghan, A.G. Rosenberg, H.E. Rubash, ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Vol. 2, 2007, pp. 1053 - 1059.

• Functional Pelvic Orientation Measured From Lateral Standing and Sitting Radiographs
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, M.A. Hafez, B. Jaramaz, T.J. Levison, and J.E. Moody
  Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Vol. 453, December, 2006, pp. 272 - 276.

• Minimally Invasive Surgery and Computer Assisted Surgery in Total Hip Replacement
  K.J. Stanley, B. Jaramaz, and A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD
  Tecniche Chirurgiche in Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Vol. III - IV, No. 3, September, 2006, pp. 179 - 182.

• Computer-Assisted Total Hip Arthroplasty: The Present and the Future
  M.A. Hafez and A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD
  Future Rheumatology, Vol. 1, No. 1, February, 2006, pp. 121 - 131.

• Three-dimensional Planning and Virtual Radiographs in Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty for Instability
  M.J. Seel, M.A. Hafez, K. Eckman, B. Jaramaz, D. Davidson, and A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD
  Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Vol. 442, January, 2006, pp. 35 - 38. [Abstract]

• Less Invasive Total Hip Arthroplasty Using Navigational Tools
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, S. Blendea, B. Jaramaz, and T.J. Levison
  AAOS Instructional Course Lectures, Symposium 16, Vol. 53, 2004, pp. 157 - 164.

• Navigation of the Hip
  A. Mor, B. Jaramaz, and A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD
  Third Edition of Orthopaedic Knowledge Update, 2004.

• Mini-Incision Technique for Total Hip Arthroplasty with Navigation
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, A.Y. Plakseychuk, T.J. Levison, and B. Jaramaz
  The Journal of Arthroplasty, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2003, pp. 123 - 128.

• HipNav: A Surgical Navigation and Measurement Tool for Placement of Acetabular Implant in Total Hip Replacement
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, B. Jaramaz, and M. Blackwell
  June, 1998.

• An Image Guided Navigation System for Accurate Alignment in Total Hip Replacement Surgery
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, B. Jaramaz, M. Blackwell, D. Simon, F. Morgan, J.E. Moody, C. Nikou, B. Colgan, C. Aston, R. LaBarca, E. Kischell, and T. Kanade
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-98-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. [Abstract]
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