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Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 09, 2016
Applicants:

Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK (US);

Inventors:

Meir Bar-Tal, Haifa, IL;

Erez Silberschein, Tel Aviv, IL;

Assaf Rubissa, Misgav, IL;

Garth Francis Constantine, Murrieta, CA (US);

Hiroshi Nakagawa, Edmond, OK (US);

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/1492 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00351 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00648 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00708 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00738 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00779 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00827 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, consisting of ablating tissue for a time period, measuring a contact force applied during the time period, and measuring a power used during the time period. The method further includes ceasing ablating the tissue when a desired size of a lesion produced in the tissue, as estimated using an integral over the time period of a product of the contact force raised to a first non-unity exponent and the power raised to a second non-unity exponent, is reached.


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