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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2007
Andrew N. Csavoy, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Matthew S. Solar, Indialantic, FL (US);
Jeffrey M. Waynik, Nederland, CO (US);
Mark S. Freas, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Thomas I. Miller, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Keith Sootsman, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Andrew N. Csavoy, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Matthew S. Solar, Indialantic, FL (US);
Jeffrey M. Waynik, Nederland, CO (US);
Mark S. Freas, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Thomas I. Miller, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Keith Sootsman, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A system to allow registration of a patient to image space is disclosed. The registration can be performed without touching a plurality of fiducial points on the patient or in the image data. The registration process can eliminate manual steps of image to patient registration and image to image registration.