Rüdiger Marmulla (born 19 December 1963, in

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian dialects, Hessian: , "Franks, Frank ford (crossing), ford on the Main (river), Main"), is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as o ...

) is a German cranio-maxillofacial surgeon.

Career

On 24 March, 1998, Rüdiger Marmulla performed the first computer-assisted

bone segment navigation Bone segment navigation is a surgical method used to find the anatomical position of displaced bone fragments in fractures, or to position surgically created fragments in craniofacial surgery. Such fragments are later fixed in position by osteosynt ...

at the

University of Regensburg The University of Regensburg (german: link=no, Universität Regensburg) is a public research university located in the medieval city of Regensburg, Bavaria, a city that is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university was founded on ...

, Germany. For this, a new

navigation system A navigation system is a computing system that aids in navigation. Navigation systems may be entirely on board the vehicle or vessel that the system is controlling (for example, on the ship's bridge) or located elsewhere, making use of radio or othe ...

was used which Marmulla developed in cooperation with

Carl Zeiss Carl Zeiss (; 11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Carl Zeiss AG. Zeiss gathered a group of gifted practica ...

. The Surgical Segment Navigator uses for the first time complete anatomical surfaces instead of single reference points for the patient registration process. After his academic studies in human medicine and dentistry at the University of Frankfurt/Main, Rüdiger Marmulla received two doctorates as Dr. med. ( MD) and Dr. med. dent. (

DMD DMD may refer to: Science and medicine * Dimethyldioxirane, an organic molecule * Doctor of Dental Medicine, an academic degree for the profession of Dentistry * Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a neurodegenerative disease * Dysmyelogenic leukod ...

) in the field of electron-microscopic research at the Dr. Senckenbergische Anatomie. Later, Rüdiger Marmulla joined the medical branch of the Christian AIDS Help Facility in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its ...

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...

. From 1994 to 1998, Rüdiger Marmulla worked as resident in the clinic for oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Regensburg, as of 1998 he was senior physician. In 1999, Rüdiger Marmulla qualified as a professor with his thesis in computer-assisted

. Since 1995, Rüdiger Marmulla acts as consultant for

Carl Zeiss AG Carl Zeiss AG (), branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe (joined 1866) and Otto Schott (joined 1884) he laid t ...

and since 2005 as consultant for Fraunhofer Institute IPK, Berlin. From 2002 on he led a special research field funded by the

German Research Foundation The German Research Foundation (german: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germ ...

for computer-supported surgery at the

University of Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public university, public research university in Heidelberg, B ...

and the

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 ...

. Since 2005, Rüdiger Marmulla had, among others, a joint research and development project for navigation with the

German Aerospace Center The German Aerospace Center (german: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., abbreviated DLR, literally ''German Center for Air- and Space-flight'') is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of Germany ...

(Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR).Projects of Prof. Dr. Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla, granted by the German Research Foundation
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Monographs

* ''Time Scheduling Professional.'' Jungjohann Publishing house, Neckarsulm 1997, . * ''Comprehensive Patient Administrator.'' 2nd ed. Jungjohann Publishing house, Neckarsulm 2003, . * with Michael Dieterich: ''Church in Progress.'' 1st ed. IPP Publishing house, Freudenstadt 2015, .

Patents

* ''Marmulla, Rüdiger (inventor), Carl Zeiss Oberkochen (submitter): Bone Segment Navigation System, International Patent PCT/EP98/06828, 1998'' * ''Marmulla, Rüdiger (inventor), Carl Zeiss Oberkochen (submitter): Bone Segment Navigation system, European Patent EP/98954456, 1999'' * ''Marmulla, Rüdiger System and method for bone segment navigation, United States Patent 6.241.735, 2001'' * ''Marmulla, Rüdiger (inventor), Carl Zeiss (submitter): System and method for bone segment navigation, Japanese Patent 1999-523260, 2002'' * ''Marmulla, Rüdiger and Lüth, Tim: Device for instrument, bone segment, tissue, and organ navigation, European Patent 1237493, 2004'' * ''Marmulla, Rüdiger and Lüth, Tim: Method and device for instrument, bone segment, tissue, and organ navigation, United States Patent 7.079.885, 2006''

References

External links

Publications in US National Library of Medicine
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