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

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

Meir Bar-Tal

Eran Aharon

Alon Boumendil

Ella Ozeri

Stanislav Katzir

Gili Attias

Yair Palti

Amit Fuchs

Jetmir Palushi

Shlomo Ben-Haim

Dean M Ponzi

Ehsan Shameli

Michael Levin

Fatemeh Akbarian

Itamar Bustan

Babak Ebrahimi

Asaf Merschon

Jeffrey William Schultz

Maier Fenster

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

Aharon Turgeman

Yaron Keidar

Henry F Salazar

Doron Moshe Ludwin

John H Thinnes, Jr

Don Q Ngo-Chu

Avigdor Rosenberg

Yoav Pinsky

Michael Olen Zirkle

Maribeth Esguerra Wilczynski

Yigal Ultchin

Mikhael Feldchtein

Marc Dean

Remi Bettan

Yevgeny Bonyak

Assaf Preiss

Eliahu Zino

Tal Haim Bar-on

Uri Yaron

Ram Bernard Mayer

Avi Reuveni

Avi Shalgi

Jennifer Maffre

Jan Boese

Thomas R Jenkins

Norbert Rahn

Randy J Kesten

Shahram Moaddeb

Keshava Datta

Itzhak Fang

Lior Zar

Matthias John

David E Acker

Assaf Cohen

Akram Zoabi

Alexander Levin

Noam Racheli

Tom Allen Ditter

Morris Ziv-Ari

Assaf Pressman

Zvi Dekel

Eyal Rotman

Behnam Amin

Dror Trumer

Amiram Sheiner

Alexander A Goldin

Itai Doron

Shlomo Fried

Yochai Parchak

Moran Levi

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

Apparatus, including a catheter configured to be inserted into an organ of a human body. A plurality of electrodes are deployed on the catheter, the electrodes being configured to transfer radiofrequency (RF) ablation energy to tissue of the organ. The apparatus also includes a power supply configured to supply the RF ablation energy at a level of up to 100 W to each of the plurality of electrodes simultaneously, so as to ablate respective sections of the tissue of the organ in contact with the electrodes.

Temperature controlled short duration ablation with multiple electrodes

Disclosed herein are methods that include emitting an ultrasound beam, having a predefined field of view (FOV), from an array of ultrasound transducers in a catheter in an organ of a patient. Echo signals are received in the array, in response to the ultrasound beam. A position of a target object is estimated within the FOV. When the estimated position of the target object violates a centering condition, the FOV of the ultrasound beam is automatically modified to re-meet the centering condition.

Automatic control and enhancement of 4D ultrasound images

A balloon catheter that has one or more ultrasonic transducers to map a body cavity and to measure thicknesses of walls in the body cavity during an ablation procedure. The balloon of the catheter is deployable through a lumen into the body cavity with a flexible printed circuit board that has a first side attached to the exterior wall of the inflatable balloon and a second side opposite the first side. There is also provided an ultrasonic transducer mounted on the first side of the flexible printed circuit board and encapsulated between the exterior wall of the balloon and the flexible printed circuit board. A method of making or using the balloon catheter is also provided.

Balloon catheter with ultrasonic transducers

A method for ablating tissue in a subject, including providing a probe, having an electrode, that is inserted into a lumen of the subject, so that the electrode is in proximity to the tissue to be ablated. An immobilizing signal is injected into the subject, via the electrode, that immobilizes the subject. When the subject is immobilized, an ablation signal is injected via the electrode into the subject, the ablation signal being configured to ablate the tissue of the subject by irreversible electroporation. The ablation signal has at least one train of first pulses, each of the first pulses in the at least one train having a first pulse absolute amplitude, and the immobilizing signal has one or more trains of second pulses, each of the second pulses in the one or more trains having a second pulse absolute amplitude less than the first pulse absolute amplitude.

Initiating IRE generation with a ramp

An eye surgery apparatus includes an eye surgery tool, an imaging system, a robotic arm, and a processor. The eye surgery tool has a distal end for insertion into an eye of a patient through an incision in the eye. The imaging system is configured to acquire images showing the incision and at least part of the eye surgery tool. The robotic arm is coupled with the eye surgery tool, which is configured to move the distal end of the eye surgery tool inside the eye according to one or more commands issued during an eye surgery. The processor is configured to, during the eye surgery (i) receive the images from the imaging system, (ii) monitor the commands issued to the robotic arm, (iii) detect, by analyzing the images, that a monitored command is expected to enlarge the incision, and (iv) initiate responsive action with respect to the detected command.

Robot manipulator for eye surgery tool

A medical probe includes a shaft and a distal-end assembly. The shaft is configured for insertion into an organ of a body. The distal-end assembly is fitted at a distal end of the shaft. The distal-end assembly includes (a) a substrate, (b) a two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound transducer array located on the substrate, and (c) a sensor, which is also located on the substrate, the sensor configured to output signals indicative of a position and an orientation of the 2D ultrasound transducer array inside the organ.

Magnetic location sensor and ultrasound array on printed-circuit-board (PCB) of catheter and calibration thereof

A method includes, receiving: (i) a selected three-dimensional (3D) section that has been ablated in a patient organ in accordance with a specified contour, and (ii) a dataset, which is indicative of a set of lesions formed during ablation of the selected 3D section. The selected 3D section is transformed into a two-dimensional (2D) map, and checking, on the 2D map, whether the set of lesions covers the specified contour.

Assessing lesions formed in an ablation procedure

A system for identifying vortices in a vector map including multiple vectors, the system includes a processor and an output device. The processor is configured to: (i) define one or more closed loops on the vector map, and (ii) for each closed loop, identify a plurality of the vectors that cross the closed loop, calculate a vector sum of the identified vectors, and decide based on the vector sum whether a vortex is located inside the closed loop. The output device is configured to indicate one or more identified vortices to a user.

Identifying a vortex in an electro-anatomical map

A method includes emitting an ultrasound beam from an array of ultrasound transducers in a catheter placed in a blood pool in an organ. Echo signals reflected in response to the ultrasound beam are received in the array. Distinction is made in the echo signals between (i) first spectral signal components having Doppler shifts characteristic of blood and (ii) second spectral signal components having Doppler shifts characteristic of tissue of the organ. The first spectral signal components are suppressed relative to the second spectral signal components in the echo signals. An ultrasound image of at least a portion of the organ is reconstructed from the echo signals having the suppressed first spectral signal components. The reconstructed image is displayed to a user.

Ultrasound imaging of cardiac anatomy using doppler analysis

In one embodiment, a system includes a balloon catheter configured to be inserted into a body-part of a living subject, the balloon catheter comprising an insertion tube having a distal tip, a force sensor connected to the distal tip, and an inflatable balloon including a proximal portion connected to the force sensor so that the force sensor is disposed between the distal tip of the insertion tube and the inflatable balloon, and multiple electrodes disposed around an outer surface of the balloon, and configured, when the balloon is inflated, to contact tissue at respective locations in the body-part, wherein the force sensor is configured to output at least one force signal indicative of a magnitude and a direction of a force applied by the balloon on the tissue when the balloon is inflated.

Balloon catheter with force sensor

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Haifa, Israel

Assaf Govari