Title:
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR STEERING MEDICAL DEVICES IN BODY LUMENS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2006024033
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A method of operating a navigation system that can orient the distal end of a medical device in a selected direction to navigate the medical device through a network of body lumens in an operating region in a subject that includes identifying a path through the network of body lumens in the operating region; displaying a two-dimensional image of the operating region including the path through the body lumens; determining at least one location on the path; and operating the navigation system to orient the distal end of the medical device in a direction substantially aligned with the path at the at least one location and advancing the distal end of the medical device.
Inventors:
VISWANATHAN RAJU R (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2005/030605
Publication Date:
December 14, 2006
Filing Date:
August 24, 2005
Export Citation:
Assignee:
STEREOTAXIS INC A CORP OF THE (US)
VISWANATHAN RAJU R (US)
VISWANATHAN RAJU R (US)
International Classes:
A61B5/05; A61B6/00; A61B19/00; A61F11/00
Foreign References:
| US20030125752A1 | 2003-07-03 |
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