Biosense Webster (israel) Ltd.

Biosense Webster, Inc.

Biosense, Inc.

Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.

Acclarent, Inc.

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Biosense Webster (isreal) Ltd.

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Bisense, Inc.

Biosense Wabster, Inc.

Biosence Webster, Inc.

Assaf Govari

Maier Fenster

Andres Claudio Altmann

Vadim Gliner

Christopher Thomas Beeckler

Yaron Ephrath

Yehuda Algawi

Ilya Sitnitsky

Joseph Thomas Keyes

Kevin Justin Herrera

Israel Zilberman

Yitzhack Schwartz

Athanassios Papaioannou

Ariel Garcia

Rowan Olund Hettel

Eran Aharon

Meir Bar-Tal

Alon Boumendil

Ella Ozeri

Stanislav Katzir

Amit Fuchs

Gili Attias

Yair Palti

Jetmir Palushi

Shlomo Ben-Haim

Dean M Ponzi

Ehsan Shameli

Michael Levin

Fatemeh Akbarian

Itamar Bustan

Babak Ebrahimi

Asaf Merschon

Jeffrey William Schultz

Eliyahu Ravuna

Eid Adawi

Joel Zilberstein

Eduardo J Jimenez

Kristine B Fuimaono

Mario A Solis

Daniel Osadchy

Arnold Cruz Tuason

Rogelio Plascencia

Tamir Avraham Yellin

Eden Kidishman

Alexander David Squires

Shubhayu Basu

Thomas V Selkee

George L Matlock

Yaron Keidar

Aharon Turgeman

Henry F Salazar

Doron Moshe Ludwin

John H Thinnes, Jr

Don Q Ngo-Chu

Yoav Pinsky

Avigdor Rosenberg

Michael Olen Zirkle

Maribeth Esguerra Wilczynski

Yigal Ultchin

Mikhael Feldchtein

Marc Dean

Avi Shalgi

Jennifer Maffre

Noam Racheli

Yevgeny Bonyak

Assaf Preiss

Eliahu Zino

Tal Haim Bar-on

Uri Yaron

Avi Reuveni

Ram Bernard Mayer

Remi Bettan

Jan Boese

Thomas R Jenkins

Norbert Rahn

Randy J Kesten

Keshava Datta

Shahram Moaddeb

Itzhak Fang

Lior Zar

Matthias John

David E Acker

Shmuel Auerbach

Assaf Cohen

Alexander Levin

Akram Zoabi

Tom Allen Ditter

Morris Ziv-Ari

Eyal Rotman

Assaf Pressman

Zvi Dekel

Behnam Amin

Alexander A Goldin

Amiram Sheiner

Dror Trumer

Itai Doron

Shlomo Fried

Yochai Parchak

An apparatus includes a proximal shaft configured to mechanically couple to a motor, a first universal joint, a middle shaft coupled to the proximal shaft via the first universal joint, a housing having a bore, a second universal joint within the bore, a distal shaft coupled to the middle shaft via the second universal joint, and a connector disposed over the distal shaft. The bore limits a downward tilt of the distal shaft such that, as a rotor approaches the distal shaft, the distal shaft becomes axially aligned with the rotor by virtue of the proximal end of the rotor entering the connector or vice versa. A spring connected proximally to the connector and distally to the second universal joint is configured to decompress, thereby reversibly coupling the connector to the proximal end of the rotor, upon the motor rotationally aligning the connector with the proximal end of the rotor.

Apparatus and method for mechanically coupling a motor to a rotor of a progressive cavity pump

A phacoemulsification device includes a phacoemulsification probe and a processor. The phacoemulsification probe includes a piezoelectric crystal configured to vibrate in response to a drive signal, a needle configured to be inserted into a lens capsule of an eye and to be vibrated by the piezoelectric crystal, and a set of magnetic-field components. The set includes (i) one or more magnetic-field generators configured to generate a magnetic field, and (ii) one or more magnetic-field sensors configured to sense the magnetic field. At least one of the magnetic-field components is coupled to vibrate with the needle and at least one other of the magnetic-field components is isolated from vibration of the needle, thereby causing the magnetic-field sensors to output signals indicative of the vibration. The processor is configured to adaptively adjust a frequency of the drive signal so as to vibrate the needle at a resonant frequency of the piezoelectric crystal.

Phacoemulsification probe comprising magnetic sensors and/or multiple independent piezoelectric vibrators

A method includes, receiving multiple signals from multiple respective electrodes arranged along an inner circumference of a blood vessel that has been ablated. Based on the multiple signals, one or more quality measures of the ablated blood vessel are produced. A graphical presentation indicative of the one or more quality measures, is displayed to a user in a two-dimensional (2D) polar coordinate system.

Presenting quality measures of tissue ablation in a blood vessel using a two-dimensional map

A power line interference (PLI) suppression method includes receiving an input analog signal superimposed with PLI, and digitally estimating one or more harmonics of the PLI in real-time. Responsively to the one or more digitally estimated harmonics, one or more analog harmonic waveforms are outputted, that match the respective one or more harmonics of the PLI. The input analog signal and the one or more analog harmonic waveforms are received, and the superimposed PLI in the input analog signal is suppressed using the one or more analog harmonic waveforms. An analog output signal is outputted, that corresponds to the input analog signal having the suppressed PLI.

Filtering power line noises from analog electrophysiological signals in real-time

A registration device, including a wand, a light guide passing through the wand, and a position sensor fixed to the wand. A light source outputs a modulated beam of light into a light guide proximal end, so that the light is emitted from a light guide distal end toward a surface in proximity to a wand distal tip. A detector receives, from the light guide proximal end, light reflected from the surface into the light guide distal end, and outputs a signal indicative of the reflected light intensity. A processor computes a distance from the distal tip of the wand to the surface by extracting a phase difference between the output beam and the reflected light from the signal, and computes a position of the surface in a sensor frame of reference responsively to the computed distance and the location of the distal tip found from the position sensor.

Ent tools

An eye surgery system includes an Input/Output (I/O) device and a processor. The I/O device is configured to enable a user to define one or more eye surgery protocols, and further configured to, using the I/O device, present a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays one or more user defined eye surgery protocols. The processor is configured to (a) present the one or more user defined eye surgery protocols on the I/O device using the GUI, (b) test compatibility of the one or more user defined eye surgery protocols with the eye surgery system, and (c) provide an indication of the compatibility to a user of the eye surgery system.

Managing phacoemulsification user defined protocols

A system for visualizing catheter irrigation, the system includes a fluid container, a pump, a schlieren imaging assembly and a processor. The fluid container is configured to: (i) contain a first fluid, which is at least partially transparent and has a first temperature, and (ii) receive into the first fluid a catheter having one or more irrigation holes. The pump is configured to inject, through the one or more irrigation holes, a second fluid, which is at least partially transparent and has a second different temperature. The schlieren imaging assembly is configured to acquire schlieren images of turbulence occurring in the first fluid when injecting the second fluid, and the processor is configured to visualize the irrigation using the schlieren images.

Visualizing catheter irrigation using schlieren images

A radio frequency (RF) ablation system is disclosed including signal generator circuitry and control circuitry. The signal generator circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of RF ablation current signals each having a respective phase and a respective amplitude. The control circuitry is configured to reduce crosstalk between a first RF ablation signal of the plurality of RF ablation current signals and a second RF ablation signal of the plurality of RF ablation current signals by adjusting the respective phase of the first RF ablation signal in relation to the respective phase of the second RF ablation signal such that the respective phase of the first RF ablation signal is different than the respective phase of the second RF ablation signal.

Adjusting phases of multiphase ablation generator to detect contact

A switching assembly for transferring trains of pulses, including a first terminal and a second terminal. A first plurality of first relays is connected in parallel, and have first contacts connected to the first assembly terminal, and second contacts. A first capacitor is connected in parallel with the first relays. A second plurality of second relays is connected in parallel, and have third contacts, and fourth contacts connected to the second assembly terminal. A second capacitor is connected in parallel with the second relays. A connection connects the second contacts to the third contacts. The pulses have amplitudes of at least 2 kilovolts. On activation of the first and second relays the first and second contacts connect and the third and fourth contacts connect, so that the first and second assembly terminals connect. On deactivation of the first and second relays the first and second assembly terminals disconnect.

High power multiplexer with low power components

A method includes inserting an ablation catheter into an ablation site in a patient heart. Multiple electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are acquired. A refractory period of the patient heart is detected based on the acquired ECG signals. The ablation site is ablated using the ablation catheter during the detected refractory period.

Automatically performing irreversible electroporation ablation during heart refractory period

A system for controlling aspiration of a phacoemulsification probe inserted into an eye includes an anti-vacuum surge (AVS) module, one or more sensors, a vacuum relief valve, and a processor. The AVS module is coupled with an aspiration channel of the probe and is configured to mitigate vacuum surges in the channel by regulating flow via the channel. The one or more sensors are configured to measure fluid parameters in the channel. The vacuum relief valve, which is fluidly coupled with the channel, is configured to controllably relieve vacuum in the channel. The processor is configured to identify a change in at least one of the fluid parameters by reading at least one of the one or more sensors, and, responsively to an identified change in fluid parameters, operate the vacuum relief valve using pulse width modulation (PWM) to maintain a pressure in the channel within a predefined range.

Pulse width modulation (PWM) operated vacuum relief valve in conjunction with an anti-vacuum surge (AVS) module

A system for use with multiple electrodes coupled to respective spines of a probe includes multiple switches connected to the electrodes and configured to short different respective first subsets of the electrodes to each other and different respective second subsets of the electrodes to each other per different respective settings of the switches. The system further includes a processor configured to control the switches so as to alternate through the settings and, for each of the settings, cause a power generator to apply a voltage between the shorted first subset and the shorted second subset while the probe is deployed within a body of a subject. Other examples are also described.

Irreversible electroporation with shorted electrodes

A system and method that includes inserting a needle of a phacoemulsification handpiece into an eye of a patient and vibrating the needle in a first trajectory. Matter from the eye is aspirated via an aspiration line while the needle is vibrated in the first trajectory. An indication is received, of a vacuum level in the aspiration line. Determined is, that the vacuum level has changed by at least a preset vacuum level change, and in response vibrating the needle is switched to a second trajectory, different from the first trajectory.

Automatic control of phacoemulsification needle trajectory

An apparatus includes a body, a shaft assembly, and a visualization assembly. The body includes first and second actuators. The shaft assembly extends distally from the body and includes a rigid proximal portion and a steerable distal portion. The steerable distal portion is positioned distally relative to the rigid proximal portion. The first actuator is operable to drive the steerable distal portion to deflect laterally relative to a longitudinal axis defined by the rigid proximal portion. The steerable distal portion is configured to fit within a nasal cavity of a patient. The visualization assembly is disposed within the shaft assembly. The visualization assembly includes a camera. The second actuator is operable to drive longitudinal translation of the visualization assembly relative to the shaft assembly.

ENT instrument with deformable guide having translatable imaging feature

A system includes a display and a processor. The processor is configured to (i) receive a cardiac electrophysiological (EP) velocity vectors map, (ii) compute a set of directed graphs from at least some of the velocity vectors, (iii) using the directed graphs, identify respective origin velocity vectors on the EP velocity vectors map, (iv) define one or more regions on the EP velocity vectors map, (v) determining based on origin velocity vectors in each of the one or more regions, whether the one or more regions contain a focal source of an arrhythmia, and (vi) visualize regions identified to contain a focal source on the EP map to a user, on the display.

Focal arrhythmia source finder using directed graphs

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Haifa, Israel

Assaf Govari