Patent ID: 7715898
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method for simultaneously employing two or more different coil architectures in an electromagnetic (“EM”) tracking system, said method including: providing an EM transmitter, one or more EM receivers, and an EM receiver array, said EM transmitter comprising three single-coil transmitters and each of said EM receivers comprising three single-coil receivers, said receiver array comprising a plurality of single-coil receivers; tracking one or more of said single-coil transmitters of said EM transmitter with respect to said receiver array; and tracking one or more of said EM receivers with respect to said EM transmitter, wherein said step of tracking one or more of said single-coil transmitters of said EM transmitter with respect to said receiver array and said step of tracking one or more of said EM receivers with respect to said EM transmitter occur simultaneously.