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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2007
Trevor Greenan, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Dwayne Yamasaki, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Walter Bruszewski, Guerneville, CA (US);
Ken Gardeski, Plymouth, MN (US);
David Simon, Boulder, CO (US);
Trevor Greenan, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Dwayne Yamasaki, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Walter Bruszewski, Guerneville, CA (US);
Ken Gardeski, Plymouth, MN (US);
David Simon, Boulder, CO (US);
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Abstract
One or more markers or sensors are positioned in the vasculature of a patient to facilitate determining the location, configuration, and/or orientation of a vessel or certain aspects thereof (e.g., a branch vessel), determining the location, configuration and/or orientation of a endovascular devices prior to and during prosthesis deployment as well as the relative position of portions of the vasculature and devices, generating an image of a virtual model of a portion of one or more vessels (e.g., branch vessels) or devices, and/or formation of one or more openings in a tubular prosthesis in situ to allow branch vessel perfusion when the prosthesis is placed over one or more branch vessels in a patient (e.g., when an aortic abdominal artery stent-graft is fixed to the aorta superior to the renal artery ostia).