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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2016
Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Yevgeny Bonyak, Haifa, IL;
Dror Shlomo Levy, Irvine, CA (US);
Meir Bar-Tal, Haifa, IL;
Ronen Krupnik, Karmiel, IL;
Natan Sharon Katz, Atlit, IL;
Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method of ablation. The method includes the steps of inserting a probe having an ablation electrode into a body of a living subject and urging the ablation electrode into a contacting relationship with a target tissue. A measurement of a contact force is made between the ablation electrode and the target tissue, and the measurement is haptically communicated to an operator. The probe is adjusted responsively to the communicated measurement, to achieve a desired value of the contact force while ablating the target tissue using the ablation electrode.