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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
May. 31, 2019
Applicant:
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventors:
Michael Benjamin Sano, Cary, NC (US);
Christopher Carl Fesmire, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, Raleigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/1477 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00702 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00761 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00797 (2013.01); A61B 2018/126 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1467 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for performing electrothermal therapy (ETT) includes inserting one or more electrodes into a target tissue, inserting one or more temperature sensors into the target tissue, selecting a pulse waveform for a plurality of electrical pulses, and delivering to the target tissue the plurality of electrical pulses having the selected pulse waveform through the one or more electrodes, wherein a delay between ones of the plurality of electrical pulses is selected based on a temperature reading from the one or more temperature sensors.