Surgery – Miscellaneous – Devices placed entirely within body and means used therewith
Patent
1999-05-18
2000-08-01
Cohen, Lee
Surgery
Miscellaneous
Devices placed entirely within body and means used therewith
600374, 606 34, 606 41, 607122, A61B 500
Patent
active
060951508
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for locating an operative element within an interior body space use a locating probe, which includes at least one transmitting element to transmit an electric waveform output within at least a portion of the space. The systems and methods also use a sensing element, which is adapted to be carried by the operative element to sense a local electric waveform within the space. A processing element coupled to the sensing element generates a processed output that locates the sensing element relative to the locating probe based, at least in part, upon a differential comparison of the waveform output and the sensed local waveform.
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Dueiri David F.
McGee David
Panescu Dorin
Swanson David K
Whayne James G
Cohen Lee
EP Technologies, Inc.
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