Comprehensive medical system for magnetic navigation
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsDavid Groke, Michael Wiets
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Abstract
For an improved use even with medical imaging a comprehensive medical system for magnetic navigation of an object with a magnetic element within a human body is provided, having a magnet apparatus for generating a variable magnetic field in the region of the object, wherein the magnet apparatus has a plurality of electromagnets, which electromagnets are disposed in a flexibly-embodied net type structure, which net-type structure is especially able to be disposed directly on the body such that it surrounds the object on four sides.
Claims5
A comprehensive medical system for magnetic navigation of an object with a magnetic element within a human body, comprising:
- a magnet apparatus for generating a variable magnetic field in the region of the object,
- wherein the magnet apparatus has a plurality of electromagnets,
- wherein the electromagnets are disposed in a flexibly embodied net-type structure,
- wherein the flexible net-type structure is able to be disposed directly on the body such that it surrounds the object on four sides, and
- wherein the flexible net-type structure is embodied as a shrink-wrap tube that is able to be laid around the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.