Patent ID: 7286866

Claim:
A method of creating 3D models to be used for cardiac interventional procedure planning, the method comprising: obtaining acquisition data from a medical imaging system; creating cardiac image data from the acquisition data using a protocol configured for imaging a cardiac chamber; creating a 3D model of the cardiac chamber from the cardiac image data; identifying three anatomical landmarks on said 3D model; inserting three geometric markers at the three anatomical landmarks on the 3D model; exporting said 3D model to an interventional system, the 3D model including the geometric markers; importing said 3D model with the geometric markers at said interventional system; identifying the three anatomical landmarks in a coordinate system of the interventional system; and registering said 3D model with the interventional system by transforming the 3D model with the geometric markers to the coordinate system of the interventional system using the three anatomical landmarks.