Patent ID: 7676268

Claim:
A system facilitating medical diagnosis, the system comprising: implantable markers to wirelessly transmit a signal in response to a wirelessly transmitted excitation signal, when the markers are implanted in a body; an excitation signal transmitter to transmit the excitation signal to the implanted markers; a marker signal receiver to receive the response signal from each of the two implanted markers; a marker signal processor to convert the received response signals into positional information, the positional information comprising a distance between the two markers; an implantable sensing member; an implantable sensing member signal processor adapted to receive signals from the sensing member, when the sensing member is implanted in the body; an analyzer to receive the positional information and the sensing member signals, and to collate the positional information with the sensing member signals; a positional information transmitter coupled to the marker signal processor and the analyzer; and an implantable sensing member signal transmitter coupled to the implantable sensing member signal processor and the analyzer.