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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
May. 07, 2012
Applicants:
Steven L. Hartmann, Superior, CO (US);
Andrew Bzostek, Boulder, CO (US);
Bradley A. Jascob, Broomfield, CO (US);
Inventors:
Steven L. Hartmann, Superior, CO (US);
Andrew Bzostek, Boulder, CO (US);
Bradley A. Jascob, Broomfield, CO (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic Navigation, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 (2006.01); A61B 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A navigation system or combination of navigation systems can be used to provide two or more types of navigation or modalities of navigation to navigate a single instrument. The single instrument can be positioned within the patient and tracked. For example, both an Electromagnetic (EM) and Electropotential (EP) navigation system can be used to navigate an instrument within a patient.