Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.

Brandon Andrew Tran

Assaf Govari

Andres Claudio Altmann

Lior Zar

Debby Esther Highsmith

Morris Ziv-Ari

Roy Urman

Paul Suarez

Hanna Cohen-Sacomsky

Tara Gomez-hampton

Elijah Li

Shaked Meitav

A guiding sheath has a hemostatic valve and a central lumen into which a diagnostic or treatment catheter can be introduced and guided into a patient. The hemostatic valve also includes an electrically conducting element or proximity sensing element on its proximal end that interacts with a second electrically conducting element or proximity sensing element on a proximal end of the diagnostic or treatment catheter that can be passed through the central lumen of the guiding sheath and into the patient's heart. The interaction between the two electrically conducting elements or proximity sensing elements enables the location of the distal end of the diagnostic or treatment catheter in the patient's heart without the need for irradiating the patient.

Guiding sheath with distal tip locator

Medical systems and methods are provided in which a processor receives the 3D ultrasound images and receives position signals from a position tracking device, indicating the position of a corresponding probe relative to the 3D ultrasound images. Based on the probe position, a region of interest is selected that contains the position the medical probe within the 3D ultrasound images, and the selected region of interest is rendered to a display together with a representation of the medical probe superimposed on the region of interest.

Visualizing a medical probe in a four-dimensional ultrasound image

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Madison, WI, United States of America

Brandon Andrew Tran