Em tracking systems for use with ultrasound and other imaging modalities
AssigneeCIVCO Medical Instruments Co., Inc.
InventorsWillet F. Whitmore, III, Craig J. Cermak
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Abstract
An EMT system for use in ultrasound and other imaging modality guided medical procedures. The system includes a tool set of various components to which EM sensors can be releasably secured. Thus, the sensors can be reused, notwithstanding the disposal of other components of the tool set. Various components of the tool set include keying elements to facilitate their registration to the anatomy of the patient undergoing the procedure via the EM sensors.
Claims10
-9. (canceled)
A device for releasable mounting on an elongated, linear medical instrument, used in an ultrasound-guided procedure on a patient, the procedure being carried out by an ultrasound transducer to enable the position of the instrument to be tracked with respect to a patient by an EMT system, said device comprising a housing and an EM sensor, said housing mounting said sensor and being releasably securable to the instrument at various positions along the length of the instrument, said housing comprising a first keying member arranged to be releasably coupled to the ultrasound transducer to enable the EMT system to register said sensor with respect to the ultrasound transducer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.