METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDICAL INTERVENTION PROCEDURE PLANNING AND LOCATION AND NAVIGATION OF AN INTERVENTION TOOL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus by which effectiveness of an interventional procedure is raised by discriminating an interventional procedure suitable for a patient when programming the interventional procedure before actual treatment and determining a position of an interventional tool to guide a course for cardiac chamber pacing therapeutics. SOLUTION: A system and method for a medical intervention procedure within a cardiac chamber having an imaging system to obtain image data of the cardiac chamber and to create a 3D model from the image data, an interventional system to register the 3D model with a real-time image of the cardiac chamber and to display the 3D model, and an interventional tool positioned in the cardiac chamber to be displayed upon the interventional system(470 and 510) and to be navigated in real-time over the registered 3D model. Preferably, the method and system also includes a storage medium to store the 3D model and wherein the interventional system receives the stored 3D model to register with the real-time image of the cardiac chamber. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI