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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2015
The George Washington University, Washington, DC (US);
Luxcath, Llc, Boston, MA (US);
Omar Amirana, Cambridge, MA (US);
Kenneth C. Armstrong, Cary, NC (US);
James Bowen, Belmont, NC (US);
Cinnamon Larson, Carrboro, NC (US);
Marco A. Mercader, Arlington, VA (US);
Terrance J. Ransbury, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Narine Sarvazyan, Potomac, MD (US);
The George Washington University, Washington, DC (US);
460Medical, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Ablation visualization and monitoring systems and methods are provided. In some embodiments, such methods comprise applying ablation energy to a tissue to form a lesion in the tissue, illuminating the tissue with a light to excite NADH in the tissue, wherein the tissue is illuminated in a radial direction, an axial direction, or both, monitoring a level of NADH fluorescence in the illuminated tissue to determine when the level of NADH fluorescence decreases from a base level in the beginning of the ablating to a predetermined lower level, and stopping ablation of the tissue when the level of NADH fluorescence reaches the predetermined lower level.