Patent ID: 8790262

Claim:
A method comprising: implementing an ultrasonic imaging device to provide a generally real time three-dimensional patient image; identifying a plurality of target sites on the generally real time three-dimensional patient image; directing an ablation catheter to the plurality of target sites using a tracking system; selecting an optimal path, wherein the optimal path begins at a first one of the plurality of target sites and includes each of the plurality of target sites; displaying the optimal path including each of the plurality of target sites on the generally real time three-dimensional patient image; directing the ablation catheter along the optimal path to each of the plurality of target sites using the tracking system; implementing the ablation catheter to perform a cardiac ablation procedure at each of the plurality of target sites and sensing when the ablation procedure is completed at each of the plurality of target sites; and highlighting in real time each of the plurality of target sites at which the cardiac ablation procedure has been performed by highlighting those target sites at which the ablation procedure has been performed as the ablation procedure is completed at each of the plurality of target sites wherein the highlighting in real time is triggered and the completion of the ablation procedure is marked at each of the plurality of target sites by the sensing when the ablation procedure is completed, thus highlighting the progress of the ablation catheter along the optimal path by highlighting a portion of the optimal path that has been completed.