Patent ID: 7371067
Filing Date: 2008-05-13
Classification: A61F,G09B,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for designing a patient-specific medical device for accessing a body cavity or lumen of a patient comprising the steps of: providing a system that includes a device-shape knowledge base having facts and rules; the facts relating to geometries for each of at least one segment of one or more medical devices and the rules relating said geometries of each of the at least one segment of the one or more medical devices to geometries of at least a potion of a body cavity or lumen; providing data that relates to a three-dimensional geometric model of the patient's cavity or lumen to said system, the system performing an analysis using the provided data for determining correspondence between a geometry of the at least one segment of a specific one of the one or more medical devices and at least a portion of the three-dimensional geometric model; and (b) obtaining a recommendation from the system based on the analysis, the recommendation relating to the geometry of the patient-specific medical device for placement into the cavity or lumen.