Patent ID: 8332013

Claim:
A system for delivering a stent coupled with a catheter to a selected position within a lumen of the body of a patient, comprising: a medical positioning system (MPS) for determining a current position of said stent within said lumen, in a coordinate system respective of said MPS, according to position data acquired by an MPS sensor attached to said catheter in the vicinity of said stent; a user interface configured to allow a user to select an occlusion percentage threshold; a processor coupled with said user interface and with said MPS, said processor configured to determine said selected position in said lumen to which said stent is to be delivered by identifying a region of said lumen that is occluded more than said selected occlusion percentage threshold, said processor being further configured to designate said identified region on an image of said lumen with at least one mark; said MPS being further configured to repeatedly determine said current position while said catheter is being maneuvered within said lumen, said processor being configured to superimpose a stent representation respective of said determined current position on said image; said processor being further configured to produce an output when said current position, represented by said stent representation in said image, is substantially aligned with said selected position, represented by said mark in said image.