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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2008
Applicants:
Raju R. Viswanathan, St. Louis, MO (US);
Walter M. Blume, St. Louis, MO (US);
Ilker Tunay, St. Louis, MO (US);
Charidimos E. Gasparakis, St. Louis, MO (US);
Gareth T. Munger, St. Louis, MO (US);
Inventors:
Raju R. Viswanathan, St. Louis, MO (US);
Walter M. Blume, St. Louis, MO (US);
Ilker Tunay, St. Louis, MO (US);
Charidimos E. Gasparakis, St. Louis, MO (US);
Gareth T. Munger, St. Louis, MO (US);
Assignee:
Stereotaxis, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of determining the quality of contact between a remotely navigated medical device and a cyclically moving anatomical structure includes measuring movement of the device, and processing the measured movement of the device to determine the contact between the device and the moving anatomical structure.