Medtronic, Inc.

University of Minnesota

David Scanlon

H Toby Markowitz

Mustafa Karamanoglu

Chad Giese

Ioana Fleming

Phillip C Falkner

Pooja Mehta

Michael Kryger

Sean Campbell-Massa

Steven Lawrence Waldhauser

Eduardo N Warman

Rogier Receveur

Vincent Larik

Koen J Michels

Olaf Eick

Shangqian Peter Zhang

James Steeves

Jeff Jannicke

Don Hefner

Karl Evan Nowak

Victoria Interrante

Brian Houston Craig

Lane A Phillips

Noelle Christine Hurtig

Marie P Smith

Brent Chelgren

Sean T Massa

Peter Zhang

An area of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of an area or volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of an imaging device. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.

Method and apparatus for mapping a structure

An volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of a volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of other imaging devices. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.

Method and apparatus to synchronize a location determination in a structure with a characteristic of the structure

Determining a location of a member

A volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of a volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of other imaging devices. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.

Tracking a guide member

Interference blocking and frequency selection

Uni-polar and bi-polar switchable tracking system between

Determining and illustrating a structure

Determining a size of a representation of a tracked member

Determining and illustrating tracking system members

Illustrating a three-dimensional nature of a data set on a two-dimensional display

Method and apparatus for determining tracking a virtual point defined relative to a tracked member

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David Scanlon