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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2005
Nir Berzak, Zikhron-Yaakov, IL;
Roni Zvuloni, Haifa, IL;
Uri Amir, Or Yehuda, IL;
Galil Medical Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
The present invention is of a system and method for accurate cryoablation, useable to enhance a surgeon's ability to accurately cryoablate a selected cryoablation target and to limit cryoablation to that selected target. Presented are apparatus and method for accurately delimiting a cryoablation volume, for minimizing damage to tissues surrounding a cryoablation volume, and for real-time visualization of a border of a cryoablation volume during cryoablation. Also presented are a method for mildly heating tissues during cryoablation, cryoprobes operable to simultaneously cool first tissues while heating second tissues, and cryoprobes operable to cool tissues extending in a first lateral direction from those probes while not substantially cooling tissues extending in a second lateral direction from those probes.