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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1998
Rogers C. Ritter, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Jeffrey M. Garibaldi, St. Louis, MO (US);
Charles Wolfersberger, Ferguson, MO (US);
Francis M. Creighton, St. Louis, MO (US);
Peter R. Werp, St. Louis, MO (US);
Bevil J. Hogg, Town & Country, MO (US);
Walter M. Blume, Webster Groves, MO (US);
Stereotaxis, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A system of navigating a magnetic medical device within that part of a patient located within an operating region of the system, the system comprising magnets, and preferably electromagnets, arranged to provide a magnetic field sufficient to navigate the magnetic medical device within the operating region. There are preferably three magnetic coils arranged in mutually perpendicular planes such that their axes intersect in the operating region. The magnetic coils are sized and arranged so that a patient can easily access the operating region to allow virtually any portion of the patient to be positioned within the operating region. The openness of the magnetic system allows access to the operating region by a bi-planer imaging system.