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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2015
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Natalia A. Trayanova, Baltimore, MD (US);
Patrick M. Boyle, Baltimore, MD (US);
Sohail Zahid, Baltimore, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
According to some embodiments of the invention, a method for providing an atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation treatment plan includes receiving imaging data for at least a portion of an atrial region of a subject's heart, and processing the imaging data to characterize tissue as one of fibrotic tissue or non-fibrotic tissue. The method further includes calculating a metric of spatial distribution of at least a portion of the tissue characterized as fibrotic tissue from the processing the imaging data, identifying a cardiac tissue ablation target based on the metric, and providing an AF treatment plan that includes the cardiac tissue ablation target as at least a portion of the AF treatment plan.