Medtronic, Inc.

University of Minnesota

Michael Kryger

H Toby Markowitz

Phillip C Falkner

Mustafa Karamanoglu

Chad Giese

Ioana Fleming

Pooja Mehta

David Scanlon

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

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.

Determining a location of a 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

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

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

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

Determining a flow characteristic of a material in a structure

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