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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2007
Atsushi Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Akio Uchiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryoji Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Chiba, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Akio Uchiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryoji Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Chiba, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A situation where a medical device is outside a region suitable for guidance control thereof can be easily coped with. Included are a medical device provided with a magnet; a guiding unit (X-X-Y-Y-Z-Z-) that forms a control magnetic field for guidance control of the medical device, inside a prescribed control area; a detection unit (Y-Y-) that detects positional information of the medical device; and a computational unit that judges that the medical device has gone outside the control area on the basis of an output from the detection unit (Y-Y-) and calculates a direction for returning the medical device to the control area, wherein a signal-waveform calculating unit () stops forming the control magnetic field when the medical device is outside the control area.