Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-23
2005-08-23
Smith, Ruth S. (Department: 3737)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
Reexamination Certificate
active
06934575
ABSTRACT:
A method of monitoring a position of a medical instrument with respect to a patient's body, including positioning a patient reference unit on a portion of the patient's body; positioning a remote unit with respect to the medical instrument; associating at least one field sensor with at least one of the patient reference unit and the remote unit; generating an electromagnetic position characteristic field; producing position data responsive to a sensor output signal that is responsive to the presence of the electromagnetic position characteristic field such that the sensor output signal is representative of a position of the remote unit with respect to the patient reference unit; determining image data representing a plurality of images of the patient's body; and displaying an image of the patient's body based on the image data and responsive to position image data that varies for different position data.
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Ferre Maurice R.
Jakab Peter D.
Tieman James S.
Dellapenna Michael A.
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC
McAndrews Held & Malloy Ltd.
Smith Ruth S.
Vogel Peter J.
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