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Hybrid registration method

  • US 8,467,589 B2
  • Filed: 11/02/2011
  • Issued: 06/18/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of registering real-time sensor location data to previously acquired images of a branched network of body lumens comprising:

  • placing a probe containing a sensor at a distal end thereof in branched network of body lumens in a patient;

    placing a plurality of patient sensors on said patient;

    recording an image of an anatomical landmark in said patient as said landmark moves through at least one breathing cycle;

    recording concurrently a position of said sensor;

    recording concurrently positions of patient sensors, said patient sensor attached at various locations on said patient;

    saving said recordings as a data set for said landmark; and

    ,using said data set to correlate said position of said sensor to a previously acquired image of said branched network of body lumens.

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