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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
May. 12, 2011
Liat Tsoref, Tel Aviv, IL;
Yossi Gross, Moshav Mazor, IL;
Michael Kardosh, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Other;
Abstract
Apparatus comprising an ultrasound ablation system (), which comprises a reflection-facilitation element (), configured to be placed at an extramyocardial site of a subject, and to provide an extramyocardial reflective region; and an ultra-sound tool (), which comprises at least one ultrasound transducer () configured to be positioned within a heart chamber of the subject. The ultrasound transducer () is configured to ablate myocardial tissue by applying ultrasound energy to the myocardial tissue such that at least a portion of the transmitted energy is reflected by the reflective region onto the myocardial tissue. Other embodiments are also described.