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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2003
Applicants:
Assaf Govari, Haifa, IL;
Yitzhack Schwartz, Haifa, IL;
Inventors:
Assaf Govari, Haifa, IL;
Yitzhack Schwartz, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
Biosense, Inc., New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/18 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Apparatus is provided for performing ablation of cardiac tissue using ultrasound. The apparatus includes a beacon, adapted to be placed at a cardiac site in a body of a subject. The apparatus further includes a set of ultrasound transducers, each transducer adapted to detect a respective ultrasound signal coming from the beacon. Each transducer is adapted to output a time-reversed ultrasound signal, reversed in time with respect to a property of at least one of the beacon signals, and configured to ablate the cardiac tissue.