Sentec Corporation

Flying Null Limited

Mark England

Andrew Nicholas Dames

Michael David Crossfield

Joseph Adam

Andrew Dames

Mutual inductance-type current sensing apparatus () is described which includes a mutual inductance current sensor () having a first transfer function. The apparatus () also includes a low-pass filter () which receives a signal from the current sensor (). The low-pass filter () has a second transfer function configured to attenuate one or more harmonic components of the signal. The apparatus () also includes an analogue-to-digital converter () which receives and digitises a filtered signal output from the low-pass filter. The apparatus () also includes a controller () configured to process a digitised signal from the analogue-to-digital converter () using a digital processing chain configured to compensate for the frequency and phase responses of the first transfer function and the second transfer function.

Mutual inductance-type current sensing

A surgical device, e.g. a catheter or a prosthesis, is disclosed which is characterised in that it carries, at a predetermined location, a tag formed of a high permeability, low coercivity magnetic material. Also disclosed is a method of locating a surgical device within the human or animal body, which comprises inserting the device into the body together with a magnetically active marker, the marker being associated with a predetermined location on the surgical device; and sensing the position of the marker, and hence of the surgical device, by remotely detecting its magnetic response to an interrogating signal. Systems for use in this method are also disclosed.

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Mark England