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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2012
Applicant:
C.r. Bard Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Inventors:
David P. MacAdam, Millbury, MA (US);
Minoru Mashimo, Windham, NH (US);
Sylvain Fanier, La Celle, FR;
Assignee:
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/046 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/046 (2013.01); A61B 18/1492 (2013.01); A61B 5/7257 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00839 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods to assist in locating the focus of an atrial fibrillation include the association of atrial fibrillation cycle length values and statistics relating thereto with temporal locations on an electrogram of a given electrode, and/or the coordination of electrode locations with respective the spectral analyses of electrogram signals and further parameters and statistics relating thereto. Ablation therapy can proceed under guidance of such information.