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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2000
Yaron Front, Haifa, IL;
Gal Ben-David, Mitzpe Adi, IL;
VTarget Ltd., Tirat Hacarmel, IL;
Abstract
Method and system are presented for guiding a diagnostic or therapeutic instrument towards a correct target inside the patient's body. A combined image obtained by registering structural and functional images of at least a portion of the patient's body including the target is used together with a guiding device. The guiding device has an indicator associated with the instrument, and is operable for presenting data indicative of a position of a location on the instrument relative to any other point in the at least portion of the patient's body. The guiding device is connectable to a computer device displaying the combined image and operable thereby for guiding the instrument towards the target.