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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2014
Applicant:

University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Inventors:

Ashvin Kurian George, Urbana, IL (US);

Evgueni G. Kholmovski, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Nassir F. Marrouche, Park City, UT (US);

Assignee:

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/06 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 5/0402 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/062 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/6852 (2013.01); A61B 18/1492 (2013.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 5/0402 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00243 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00357 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 2090/374 (2016.02);
Abstract

A method of monitoring a position of a catheter tip relative to a target tissue. The method includes steps of identifying a wall structure in the target tissue; guiding a catheter towards the wall structure; monitoring a location of the catheter; directing a navigator beam towards the wall structure; aligning the navigator beam with the location of the catheter; monitoring a position of the wall structure using the navigator beam; and determining the position of the wall structure relative to the location of the catheter.


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