METHOD FOR TRACKING AND POSITIONING MAGNETIC CATHETER AND STRUCTURE OF MAGNETIC CATHETER

Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000

United States of America Patent

SERIAL NO

15248439

Stats

ATTORNEY / AGENT: (SPONSORED)

Importance

Loading Importance Indicators... loading....

Abstract

See full text

A method for tracking and positioning a magnetic catheter and a structure of a magnetic catheter are disclosed for facilitating tracking and positioning of catheters in human bodies without using electromagnetic induction as conventionally used. When electromagnetic induction and remote magnetic control are used together, their respective magnetic fields may mutually interfer, increasing the risk of operational errors of the magnetic catheters they are working on. The disclosed magnetic catheter has an elastic unit. While the magnetic catheter bends, inductance variation caused by elastic deformation of the elastic unit is measured for calculating an actual bending angle of the magnetic catheter. Then the motion of the magnetic catheter can be amended accordingly. By using calculation instead of electromagnetic tracking, mutual interference between different magnetic fields can be prevented.

Loading the Abstract Image... loading....

First Claim

See full text

Family

Loading Family data... loading....

Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddress
NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITYTAINAN CITY 701

International Classification(s)

Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
CHANG, CHIEN-CHEN TAINAN CITY, TW 4 7
FANG, HSIN-EN TAINAN CITY, TW 4 5
LIN, YANG-BEN TAINAN CITY, TW 2 1
LUO, CHING-HSING TAINAN CITY, TW 9 150
SHIEH, MENG-DAR TAINAN CITY, TW 8 16
SHIH, MING-CHANG TAINAN CITY, TW 36 441
TAI, CHENG-CHI TAINAN CITY, TW 11 61
TSAI, MING-HUNG TAINAN CITY, TW 69 250
YANG, WEN-HORNG TAINAN CITY, TW 5 8
ZHANG, YI TAINAN CITY, TW 1881 15120

Cited Art Landscape

Load Citation

Patent Citation Ranking

Forward Cite Landscape

Load Citation