Patent ID: 8364245

Claim:
An interventional system that employs medical imaging data as a guide for advancing an interventional device, comprising: a registration component that performs a first registration between an image space coordinate system and an interventional space coordinate system based on first interventional device position information of an interventional device within a patient obtained from a first image data indicative of a first location of the interventional device and obtained from a position sensor that is located on the interventional device within the patient at the first interventional device location, wherein the registration component updates the first registration by performing a second registration based on the first image data and a second interventional device position information of the interventional device within the patient obtained from intermediate image data indicative of a second location of the interventional device and obtained from the position sensor located at the second interventional device location, wherein the intermediate image data is acquired by an imaging device after the interventional device is moved to the second location; and a presentation component for presenting the intermediate image data and the interventional device position information.