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A61B 10/00 (2006.01) A61B 5/06 (2006.01) A61B 19/00 (2006.01) A61M 5/46 (2006.01) A61B 6/12 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2612433

System for navigating a surgical needle toward a target organ of the body of a patient, the system including a removable mandrel, a medical positioning system (MPS) sensor, an electromagnetic field generator, and an MPS, the removable mandrel being located within the surgical needle, the removable mandrel to be moved in and moved out of the surgical needle, the MPS sensor being located at the tip of the removable mandrel, the electromagnetic field generator generating an electromagnetic field, the MPS being coupled with the MPS sensor and with the electromagnetic field generator, the MPS sensor producing an output according to the electromagnetic field, the MPS determining the position of the tip of the removable mandrel in a coordinate system respective of the MPS, according to the output of the MPS sensor, the MPS producing an indication respective of the position of the tip of the removable mandrel, to enable navigation of the surgical needle toward the target organ.

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