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Robotic catheter system and methods

  • US 8,190,238 B2
  • Filed: 12/11/2006
  • Issued: 05/29/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for performing an interventional procedure using a robotically controlled guide instrument coupled to an instrument drive assembly, the guide instrument having a working lumen for receiving a therapeutic or diagnostic instrument, the method comprising:

  • manipulating a user interface of a master controller to actuate the drive assembly and thereby position a distal portion of the guide instrument at an interventional procedure site in a patient'"'"'s body; and

    providing on a first display a graphically rendered image of the distal portion of the guide instrument overlaying an image of the interventional procedure site, wherein the rendered image comprises a graphical rendering of at least a length-wise portion of the guide instrument;

    wherein manipulation of the user interface causes a corresponding movement of the rendered image relative to the image in the first display.

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