Medtronic, Inc.

Jeff Jannicke

H Toby Markowitz

Steven Lawrence Waldhauser

Chad Giese

Phillip C Falkner

Mustafa Karamanoglu

Ioana Fleming

David Scanlon

Pooja Mehta

Michael Kryger

Sean Campbell-Massa

Don Hefner

Eduardo N Warman

Rogier Receveur

Vincent Larik

Koen J Michels

Olaf Eick

Shangqian Peter Zhang

James Steeves

Kenneth C Gardeski

Andrzej M Malewicz

Stanten C Spear

Jeremy J Odegard

Richard Patrick Manahan

David A Schuelke

Elizabeth A Ellingson

Peter Zhang

Debbie L Kirihara

David A Scanlon

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.

Interference blocking and frequency selection

A system for determining a location of an instrument within an anatomy is provided. The system can include a first instrument, which can define at least one lumen. The system can further include a second instrument, which can be received through the at least one lumen. The system can include at least one electrode, which can be coupled to a distal end of the first instrument. The electrode can be responsive to electrical activity to generate at least one signal. The system can include a sensing unit, which can be in contact with the anatomy to sense electrical activity within the anatomy at a location near the instrument. The sensing unit can be in communication with the electrode to receive the signal. The system can further include a control module that can determine, based on the sensed electrical activity and the signal, the location of the first instrument.

System and method for determining sheath location

Uni-polar and bi-polar switchable tracking system between

Determining and illustrating a structure

Determining a size of a representation of a tracked member

Method and apparatus for mapping a structure

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

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.

Determining a flow characteristic of a material in a structure

A slitting tool for severing a tubular body includes a body portion, extending along a first axis, joined to a nose portion extending along a second axis, the second axis extending at an angle between approximately 5 degrees and approximately 90 degrees with respect to the first axis. The nose portion includes means for severing the tubular body while the body portion includes means for gripping by a hand of a user such that a wrist of the hand is in a neutral position when the means for severing is directed toward the tubular body.

Slitting tool

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Andover, MN, United States of America

Jeff Jannicke