A method and apparatus for improved surgical navigation employing electronic indentification with automatically actuated flexible medical devices

摘要

A navigation system (57) for minimally invasive surgery incorporating means of automatic electronic identification of automatically actuated flexible medical device (51) characteristics, communication of such information to a navigation control system (57) and its use in an automatic actuation system (54) that is used to accurately control navigation of the flexible medical device (51) within a patient's anatomy by the use of a physics-based model of flexible device (51) response to automatically applied actuations in order to efficiently access specified regions targeted for therapy delivery.