Determining and Illustrating a Structure
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1. A system to identify a structure in a volume, comprising:
- an instrument operable to be moved in the volume;
a first position element positioned near a first end of the instrument;
a display device operable to display a map of an internal surface of the volume; and
a processor operable to evaluate an electrical property sensed with the first position element;
wherein the processor is further operable to generate a virtual filled volume relative to the map of the internal surface;
wherein the processor is further operable to determine with input from the instrument a portion of the virtual filled volume relative to the map of the internal surface that represents a physical surface of the volume.
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Abstract
An volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of a volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of other imaging devices. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.
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1. A system to identify a structure in a volume, comprising:
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an instrument operable to be moved in the volume; a first position element positioned near a first end of the instrument; a display device operable to display a map of an internal surface of the volume; and a processor operable to evaluate an electrical property sensed with the first position element; wherein the processor is further operable to generate a virtual filled volume relative to the map of the internal surface; wherein the processor is further operable to determine with input from the instrument a portion of the virtual filled volume relative to the map of the internal surface that represents a physical surface of the volume. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method to identify a structure in a volume, comprising:
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generating a map of an internal surface of the volume; generating a virtual filled volume superimposed on the generated map; displaying the virtual filled volume; moving a position element towards a physical surface of the volume; determining a position of the position element relative to the physical surface of the volume; and redisplaying the virtual filled volume including a removed portion of the virtual filled volume if the virtual filled volume does not represent a physical surface of the volume based on a determination that the determined position of the position element is closer to the physical surface of the volume than represented by the virtual filled volume superimposed on the generated map. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method to identify a structure in a volume, comprising:
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moving a position element within a heart; collecting a plurality of positions of the position element within the heart; generating a map of an internal surface of the heart based on the collected plurality of positions; generating a virtual filled volume superimposed on the generated map; displaying the virtual filled volume on a display device; determining a disturbed virtual filled volume, including; moving the position element towards a physical surface of the volume; determining a position of the position element relative to the physical surface of the volume; and generating the disturbed virtual volume including a removed portion of the virtual filled volume if the generated virtual filled volume does not represent a physical surface of the heart based on a determination that the position of the position element is closer to the physical surface of the volume than represented by the generated virtual filled volume superimposed on the generated map; and displaying the disturbed virtual volume superimposed on the generated map. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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