abstract |
Methods, systems, and devices for marking the location of a biopsy are disclosed, including loading a navigation plan into a navigation system with the navigation plan including a CT volume generated from a plurality of CT images, inserting a probe into a patient's airways with the probe including a location sensor in operative communication with the navigation system, registering a sensed location of the probe with the CT volume of the navigation plan, selecting a target in the navigation plan, navigating the probe and location sensor to the target, storing a position of the location sensor in the navigation system as a biopsy location, and performing a biopsy at the stored biopsy location. |