Medtronic, Inc.

University of Minnesota

Karl Evan Nowak

H Toby Markowitz

Chad Giese

Mustafa Karamanoglu

Ioana Fleming

David Scanlon

Phillip C Falkner

Pooja Mehta

Michael Kryger

Sean Campbell-Massa

Victoria Interrante

Eduardo N Warman

Brian Houston Craig

Lane A Phillips

Steven Lawrence Waldhauser

Rogier Receveur

Vincent Larik

Koen J Michels

Olaf Eick

Shangqian Peter Zhang

James Steeves

Noelle Christine Hurtig

Marie P Smith

Brent Chelgren

Sean T Massa

David A Scanlon

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

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

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.

Determining and illustrating tracking system members

Locating a member in a structure

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

Determining the position of an electrode relative to an insulative cover

Volumetrically illustrating a structure

Correcting for distortion in a tracking system

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Karl Evan Nowak