Medtronic, Inc.

University of Minnesota

Pooja Mehta

H Toby Markowitz

Phillip C Falkner

Chad Giese

Ioana Fleming

Eduardo N Warman

Mustafa Karamanoglu

David Scanlon

Michael Kryger

Sean Campbell-Massa

Steven Lawrence Waldhauser

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

Yong Kyun Cho

Mark K Erickson

Sameh Sowelam

Peter Zhang

Marina Jovanovic

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

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

Reference structure for a tracking system

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

A system to determine and illustrate a location of position element within a volume is disclosed. The position element can be used to determine the position of a portion of an instrument. The instrument can include one or both of a cannulated member and a lead member passed through the cannula.

Locating an indicator

Locating a member in a structure

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

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Bartlett, IL, United States of America

Pooja Mehta