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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
May. 25, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Wilfred Heiner, Bakkeveen, NL;
Bart-Jan Korteling, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Biosense Webster, Inc., Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/802 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/802 ;
Abstract
A cryoablation catheter having a high efficiency gas expansion chamber comprised of a generally cylindrical or hemispherical cooling chamber having a wall thickness equal to approximately one half the wall thickness of the walls of the catheter in order to provide a cooling chamber increased with large gas expansion volume and having thin walls for rapid cooling of the outside surface of the cooling chamber.