Patent ID: 8795195

Claim:
A tissue biopsy system, comprising: a probe component that includes an elongated distal shaft having a cannula with a tissue penetrating tip and a tissue receiving aperture; a tissue cutting member movable relative to the probe component, and configured to sever tissue which extends through the tissue receiving aperture; a driver component configured to rotate the probe component so as to adjust a rotational orientation of the tissue receiving aperture to each of a plurality of rotational positions; a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to generate a positional representation of each rotational position of the tissue receiving aperture to display a graphical representation of a cutting progression during a biopsy procedure, the GUI configured to generate during the biopsy procedure a first angular GUI area graphical representation of a first region of a target site corresponding to at least one rotational position of the tissue receiving aperture from which the tissue cutting member has severed tissue which extends through the tissue receiving aperture, the first angular GUI area having a first artificial visual identifying characteristic; and the GUI configured to generate during the biopsy procedure a second angular GUI area graphical representation of a second region of the target site corresponding to a remainder of the plurality of rotational positions of the tissue receiving aperture from which the tissue cutting member has not separated any tissue specimen, the second angular GUI area having a second artificial visual identifying characteristic to make the second angular GUI area visually distinguishable from the first angular GUI area.