Medtronic, Inc.

University of Minnesota

Lane A Phillips

H Toby Markowitz

Phillip C Falkner

Chad Giese

Karl Evan Nowak

Noelle Christine Hurtig

Marie P Smith

Brent Chelgren

Eduardo N Warman

Steven Lawrence Waldhauser

Rogier Receveur

Mustafa Karamanoglu

Vincent Larik

Koen J Michels

Ioana Fleming

David Scanlon

Pooja Mehta

Michael Kryger

Olaf Eick

Sean Campbell-Massa

Shangqian Peter Zhang

James Steeves

Brian Houston Craig

Victoria Interrante

Kenneth C Gardeski

Steven L Hartmann

Andrew Bzostek

Bradley A Jascob

Laurent Verard

Kendra Yasger

Jean M Carver

Michael Neidert

David A Scanlon

Michael R Neidert

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 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.

A navigation system or combination of navigation systems can be used to provide two or more navigation modalities to navigate a single instrument in a volume. For example, both an Electromagnetic (EM) and Electropotential (EP) navigation system can be used to navigate an instrument within the volume. Image data can also be illustrated relative to a tracked position of the instrument in the volume for navigation.

Combination localization system

Determining the position of an electrode relative to an insulative cover

Identifying a structure for cannulation

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