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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2004
Applicants:
Charles Bryan Byrd, Medford, NJ (US);
Praveen Dala-krishna, Bensalem, PA (US);
David A. Jenkins, Flanders, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Charles Bryan Byrd, Medford, NJ (US);
Praveen Dala-Krishna, Bensalem, PA (US);
David A. Jenkins, Flanders, NJ (US);
Assignee:
St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging system is provided with an ultrasound catheter and a controller coupled to the ultrasound catheter. The catheter includes a localizer sensor configured to generate positional information for the ultrasound catheter, and an imaging ultrasound sensor having a restricted field of view. The controller co-registers images from the imaging ultrasound sensor with positional information from the localizer sensor.