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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
May. 05, 2006
Raju R. Viswanathan, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jeffrey M. Garibaldi, St. Louis, MO (US);
Raju R. Viswanathan, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jeffrey M. Garibaldi, St. Louis, MO (US);
Stereotaxis, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling a remote navigation system that remotely orients the distal end of the medical device in order to navigate a medical device through a body lumen, the method comprising: displaying an exterior image of the body lumen; superimposing an indicator of the current position of the medical device in the body lumen; displaying a plurality of segment labels; receiving oral commands and recognizing one of the spoken displayed segment labels; and causing the remote navigation system to orient the distal end of the device in a preselected direction associated with the segment corresponding to the displayed segment label.