COMBINED CATHETER AND INPUT DEVICE

摘要

A combined catheter and input device (200) for use by a medical practitioner to designate points of interest reached by the device (200) includes a catheter (202) and a location sensing system. The location sensing system (210), which includes at least one element (212) associated with a distal portion (204) of the catheter, determines a position of at least one point on the distal portion (204). An input device (214) is mounted at the proximal portion (206) and configured to be manually actuated to designate a current position of the at least one point as a point of interest.