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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2005
Uri Amir, Yehuda, IL;
Nir Berzak, Zikhron-Yaakov, IL;
Mordechai Bliweis, Haifa, IL;
Yura Leybin, Haifa, IL;
Ron Hillely, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Uri Amir, Yehuda, IL;
Nir Berzak, Zikhron-Yaakov, IL;
Mordechai Bliweis, Haifa, IL;
Yura Leybin, Haifa, IL;
Ron Hillely, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Galil Medical Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
The present invention is of systems and methods for MRI-guided cryosurgery. The systems enable a surgeon positioned next to a patient and within an MRI magnetic environment both to monitor progress of a cryosurgical intervention by observing MRI images of the intervention in real time, and to fully control aspects of operation of a cryosurgery apparatus by remotely controlling a fluid supply source positioned external to that magnetic environment, which fluid supply source supplies cryogenic fluids to cryoprobes operable within that magnetic environment, thereby enabling real-time MRI-guided control of a cryoablation process. A preferred embodiment enables calculation and display of borders of an ablation volume surrounding a cooled cryoprobe in real time, and further enables automatic control of elements of a cryoablation procedure, which elements are triggered when shape and position of that calculated ablation volume are found to bear a predefined relationship to the shape and position of a predefined treatment target.