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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2012
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Assaf Govari, Haifa, IL;

Athanassios Papaioannou, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/1492 (2013.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.02); A61B 2018/00357 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00648 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00696 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00702 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00738 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00761 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00839 (2013.01); A61B 2034/104 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 2090/065 (2016.02);
Abstract

Methods and systems are adapted for ablation of target tissue in a living subject by predicting a lesion size that would result from placing an ablation electrode into contact with the target tissue at a particular contact force while applying energy at a given power level for a particular time interval. The prediction involves modeling the lesion size as a non-linear function of the contact force, the power level and the time interval. The prediction may be iterated by varying the contact force, the power level or the time interval until a saturation point is found, beyond which the lesion size does not increase. After it is established that one of the iterations predicts a desired lesion size, ablation of the target tissue may be conducted using the contact force, the power level and the time interval of the one iteration.


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