PATENTS
System and Method for Radar-Assisted Catheter Guidance and Control
Patent Number: 09101768.9
Date Filed: February 25, 2009
Country Filed In: Hong Kong
Product Application: CGCI
Description:
This patent described how a Catheter Guidance Control and Imaging (CGCI) system uses a magnetic tip attached to a surgical tool to be detected, displayed, and influenced positionally so as to allow diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to be performed.
Field of Use: The Catheter Guidance Control and Imaging (CGCI) system was created to provide physicians the ability to guide a catheter through a patient's body using a robotically-controlled magnetic guidance system. Such a system provides the physician unprecedented accuracy in being able to navigate within the dynamic environment of the patient, create a detailed 3-D mapping, and perform a variety of catheter-based operations with precision control and an ability to return to target at the push of a button. Initial applications for the technology were for the field of Electrophysiology and specifically for the ablation of the heart to treat patients with AFib.