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| 20080208912 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT MEDICAL INFORMATION - A system and method for the real-time presentation of context-relevant information to a user of a medical intervention system is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide for the definition of a current system context, analysis of the current system context, generation of a search parameter set, search of a set of information sources, analysis of the search results, and presentation to the user. The context-relevant information is updated as the intervention proceeds. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090012821 | MANAGEMENT OF LIVE REMOTE MEDICAL DISPLAY - A system and method of locally displaying multiple items of medical information from at least one remote medical system having an output display. The method includes assembling the multiple items of medical information from the output display of at least one remote medical systems into a composite display having regions corresponding to the multiple items of medical information. Video data for the composite display is communicated over a network to a local display. Video data corresponding to the regions of the display are treated differently to provide a composite display with regions of different image quality. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090062646 | OPERATION OF A REMOTE MEDICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING ULTRASOUND IMAGE - A method of operating a remote medical navigation system using ultrasound, employs ultrasound imaging from a medical device to supplement or to replace conventional x-ray imaging of the operating region during navigation. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090105579 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLED NAVIGATION USING DIAGNOSTICALLY ENHANCED INTRA-OPERATIVE THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA - A method of performing intra-operative three-dimensional imaging and registering diagnostic functional information to the three-dimensional anatomical data is introduced. The availability of co-registered diagnostic information to intra-operative data enables fast and efficient navigation to pre-selected target areas, and allows automatic or semi-automatic treatment of cardiac cavity or vascular disease. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090177032 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAGNETICALLY CONTROLLING ENDOSCOPES IN BODY LUMENS AND CAVITIES - A magnetically navigable endoscope system includes an endoscope having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end having a magnetic body; a component which transmits an image, associated with the distal end; a display component for displaying the image; a magnetic field generating apparatus for generating a magnetic field to orient the magnetic body and thus the distal end of the endoscope; and a controller coordinated with the display for controlling the magnetic field generating apparatus to selectively change the magnetic field to change the orientation of the magnetic body and thus the distal end of the endoscope. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100063385 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAGNETICALLY CONTROLLING CATHETERS IN BODY LUMENS AND CAVITIES - A method of navigating a magnet-tipped distal end of an elongate medical device through the body includes providing an image display of the part of the body through which the medical device is being navigated and using the display to input the desired path of the medical device by identifying points on the desired path on the display. The magnetic field needed to orient the end of the medical device in the direction of the desired path as indicated on the display is then determined. In one embodiment where only points on the desired path are identified, the field direction is the direction indicated by the points on the desired path. In a second embodiment, where points on the current path and the desired path are identified, the desired angle of deflection is determined, and the direction of the magnetic field is set to lead this desired angle of deflection by 90° to over-torque the end of the catheter, and the intensity of the field is determined from a table of experimentally determined field intensities for given angles of deflection. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100097315 | GLOBAL INPUT DEVICE FOR MULTIPLE COMPUTER-CONTROLLED MEDICAL SYSTEMS - An integrated control and display system for operating a plurality of separate computer systems each having a visual display, includes at least one cursor control device for seamlessly moving a cursor among the visual displays of the separate computer systems, the cursor control device operating to control the computer system associated with the display on which the cursor appears. | 04-22-2010 |
