Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Patent
1997-10-09
2000-01-18
Jaworski, Francis J.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
600414, 600424, A61B 504
Patent
active
060164395
ABSTRACT:
Medical apparatus for synthetic view point imaging includes an instrument insertable into the body of a patient. Using tissue image information defining an image of the patient's body, and defining the position of the distal end of the instrument within the body, synthetic images of the patient's body are synthesized having a viewpoint with a defined spatial relationship to the distal end of the instrument based on the image information and the determined position of the instrument.
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Biosense Inc.
Jaworski Francis J.
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