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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
May. 02, 2013
Applicant:
Covidien Lp, Mansfield, MA (US);
Inventors:
Dorian Averbuch, Ramat HaSharon, IL;
Oded Zur, Kochav-Ya'ir Zur Yigal, IL;
Oren Weingarten, Hod HaSharon, IL;
Assignee:
Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 19/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/06 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 19/5244 (2013.01); A61B 5/06 (2013.01); A61B 5/064 (2013.01); A61B 19/5212 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00699 (2013.01); A61B 2019/5272 (2013.01); A61B 2019/5291 (2013.01);
Abstract
A registration method whereby a sensor-based approach is used to establish initial registration and whereby upon the commencement of navigating an endoscope, image-based registration methods are used in order to more accurately maintain the registration between the endoscope location and previously-acquired images. A six-degree-of-freedom location sensor is placed on the probe in order to reduce the number of previously-acquired images that must be compared to a real-time image obtained from the endoscope.