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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2006
Applicant:
Andreas Blomqvist, Spånga, SE;
Inventor:
Andreas Blomqvist, Spånga, SE;
Assignee:
St. Jude Medical, AB, Jarfalla, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/053 (2006.01); A61N 1/365 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A medical device having an impedance measurement circuit connected to at least two intracorporeal measurement electrodes arranged to measure the impedance of tissue inside the body of a patient. The impedance measurement circuit is adapted to apply a measurement current/voltage signal to the electrodes to measure and calculate the impedance of the measurement tissue, and to apply the calculated impedance value to a storage unit. The stored impedance values are used, by an analysis unit, to measure the amount of visceral fat of the tissue object inside the body of the patient.