Patent application number | Description | Published |
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20130317356 | REFERENCE MARKERS FOR LAUNCH POINT IDENTIFICATION IN OPTICAL SHAPE SENSING SYSTEMS - An optical shape sensing system employing an optical fiber ( | 11-28-2013 |
20130325387 | SHAPE SENSING DEVICE-SPECIFIC - A medical instrument, system and method for calibration are provided. The instrument includes a body ( | 12-05-2013 |
20140155737 | CURVED MULTI-PLANAR RECONSTRUCTION USING FIBER OPTIC SHAPE DATA - A system and method include a shape sensing enabled device too ( | 06-05-2014 |
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20140212025 | AUTOMATIC ONLINE REGISTRATION BETWEEN A ROBOT AND IMAGES - A registration system and method includes a configurable device ( | 07-31-2014 |
20140222370 | RAPID DENSE POINT CLOUD IMAGING USING PROBABILISTIC VOXEL MAPS - A system, device and method include a sensing enabled device ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140243660 | SHAPE SENSING ASSISTED MEDICAL PROCEDURE - A system and method for shape sensing assistance in a medical procedure includes a three-dimensional image ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140243687 | SHAPE SENSING DEVICES FOR REAL-TIME MECHANICAL FUNCTION ASSESSMENT OF AN INTERNAL ORGAN - A system and method for functioning organ assessment include a sensing enabled flexible device ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140308016 | SMART TOOL HOLDER FOR AN OPTICAL SHAPE-SENSING FIBER - A method, system, and program product hold and manipulate tools during an intervention procedure. The device comprises: a holder body in fixed attachment with a shape-sensing fiber optic fiber; one of a plurality of tools being held by the holder body in coupled alignment with the shape-sensing fiber optic fiber. | 10-16-2014 |
20140354300 | DISTORSION FINGERPRINTING FOR EM TRACKING COMPENSATION, DETECTION AND ERROR CORRECTION - A system for accounting for electromagnetic (EM) distortion with an EM tracking system includes a sensor array ( | 12-04-2014 |
20150045692 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL MECHANISMS FOR STABLE SHAPE SENSING - A fiber optic shape sensing system includes an elongated fiber optic shape sensing device ( | 02-12-2015 |
20150087927 | VOXEL TAGGING USING FIBER OPTIC SHAPE SENSING - A voxel tagging system (100) includes a sensing enabled device (104) having an optical fiber (126) configured to sense induced strain within the device (Bragg grating sensor). An interpretation module (112) is configured to receive signals from the optical fiber interacting with an internal organ, e.g. heart, and to interpret the signals to determine positions visited by the at least one optical fiber within the internal organ. A data source (152, 154) is configured to generate data associated with an event or status, e.g. respiration, ECG phase, time stamp, etc.. A storage device (116) is configured to store a history (136) of the positions visited in the internal organ and associate the positions with the data generated by the data source (152, 154). | 03-26-2015 |