Apparatus and methods are described for use with an image of blood vessels of a subject. In
response to a user designating a single point on the image (a) a target portion of a blood …

Methods and systems for navigating to a target through a patient's bronchial tree are
disclosed including a broncho scope, a probe insertable into a working channel of the …

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US PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,336,178 A 8/1994 Kaplan et al. 5,346,689 A 9/1994 Peyman et …

Apparatus and methods are provided for imaging a tool inside a portion of a subject's body
that undergoes motion. A plurality of image frames of the portion are acquired. An image …

A method and system for coronary artery detection in 3D cardiac Volumes is disclosed. The
heart chambers are seg mented in the cardiac Volume, and an initial estimation of a …

A method for implementing a dynamic three-dimensional lung map view for navigating a
probe inside a patient's lungs includes loading a navigation plan into a navigation system …

The present invention relates generally to rotatable optical couplings, and more particularly
to a manually separable and re-connectable optical-electrical rotary joint. The invention …

The invention relates to an apparatus for in vivo imaging. More specifically, the present
invention relates to a catheter that incorporates an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) …

Apparatus and methods are provided for use with an endoluminal data-acquisition device
that acquires a set of endoluminal data-points of a lumen of a subject's body at respective …

A61B5/0033—Features or image-related aspects of imaging apparatus classified in
A61B5/00, eg for MRI, optical tomography or impedance tomography apparatus; …