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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
May. 08, 2008
H. Toby Markowitz, Roseville, MN (US);
Mustafa Karamanoglu, Fridley, MN (US);
Pooja Mehta, Bartlett, IL (US);
Ioana Fleming, Anchorage, AK (US);
David Scanlon, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Michael Kryger, Mounds View, MN (US);
Sean Campbell-massa, Evanston, IL (US);
Chad Giese, St. Paul, MN (US);
Steven Waldhauser, Circle Pines, MN (US);
Peter Zhang, Shoreview, MN (US);
Jeff Jannicke, Andover, MN (US);
Phillip Falkner, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Don Hefner, St. Paul, MN (US);
H. Toby Markowitz, Roseville, MN (US);
Mustafa Karamanoglu, Fridley, MN (US);
Pooja Mehta, Bartlett, IL (US);
Ioana Fleming, Anchorage, AK (US);
David Scanlon, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Michael Kryger, Mounds View, MN (US);
Sean Campbell-Massa, Evanston, IL (US);
Chad Giese, St. Paul, MN (US);
Steven Waldhauser, Circle Pines, MN (US);
Peter Zhang, Shoreview, MN (US);
Jeff Jannicke, Andover, MN (US);
Phillip Falkner, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Don Hefner, St. Paul, MN (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
An area of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of an area or volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of an imaging device. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.