Device for localizing, influencing and guiding of tracking bodies, and method for operating a marking device
First Claim
1. Device for localizing, influencing, and guiding of tracking bodies, comprising at least one tracking body placed inside a physiological structure, and a sensor situated outside of the physiological structure for the determination of the location of the tracking body, as well as a measuring and control unit, at least one tracking body having a finite remanent magnetization with a variable magnetic dipole moment and an anisotropic magnetic dipole field resulting therefrom, wherein the sensor comprises a plurality of modular sensor clusters sensitive to the anisotropic dipole field and covering a measuring range, with one each at least one of a plurality of magnetic field sensors being integrated in the sensor cluster in a specific measuring geometry, the measuring and control unit being linked for measuring with the plurality of the sensor clusters.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for localizing tracking bodies (10), comprising at least one tracking body which is placed inside a physiological structure, and a means which is situated outside of the structure and which consists of sensor clusters (20) in a sensor cluster arrangement (55) as well as a method for localizing and influencing the tracking body. The tracking body is provided in the form of a body which is characterized by a finite remanent magnetization with a variable magnetic dipole moment and an anisotropic magnetic dipole field resulting therefrom. The sensor clusters (20) are provided in the form of a plurality of gradiometer sensors (30) with a specific measuring geometry.
Optionally, physical/chemical properties and/or a trajectory of the tracking body may be altered in a specific manner by an externally acting magnetic field (H) and/or physiological processes in the environment of the at least one tracking body. In addition, it is possible to detect the location of a variable, in particular, a displaceable portion (57) which is associated with an expanded imaging means (60) of the sensor cluster arrangement (55) by means of a fixed portion (56) of the sensor cluster arrangement and to use the variable portion of the sensor cluster arrangement as a site marking in the expanded imaging arrangement.
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21 Claims
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1. Device for localizing, influencing, and guiding of tracking bodies, comprising
at least one tracking body placed inside a physiological structure, and a sensor situated outside of the physiological structure for the determination of the location of the tracking body, as well as a measuring and control unit, at least one tracking body having a finite remanent magnetization with a variable magnetic dipole moment and an anisotropic magnetic dipole field resulting therefrom, wherein the sensor comprises a plurality of modular sensor clusters sensitive to the anisotropic dipole field and covering a measuring range, with one each at least one of a plurality of magnetic field sensors being integrated in the sensor cluster in a specific measuring geometry, the measuring and control unit being linked for measuring with the plurality of the sensor clusters.
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12. A method for localizing and influencing of a tracking body which is placed into a physiological environment, wherein
from a measured distribution of the field strength and the field direction of at least one tracking body surrounded by a magnetic dipole field, its position in space and its orientation and/or its trajectory are determined by an arrangement of at least one of a plurality of magnetic field sensors combined to a sensor cluster, and/or optionally, physical/chemical properties and/or a trajectory of the at least one tracking body are altered in a specific manner by an externally acting magnetic field and/or physiological processes in the environment of the at least one tracking body.
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