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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2013
Applicant:

Pacesetter, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sergio Richter, Leipzig, DE;

Philipp Sommer, Markkleeberg, DE;

Edith Arnold, San Francisco, CA (US);

Hoda Razavi, San Jose, CA (US);

Yelena Nabutovsky, Mountain View, CA (US);

Fujian Qu, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Pacesetter, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 19/00 (2006.01); A61N 1/362 (2006.01); A61N 1/05 (2006.01); A61N 1/37 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 19/50 (2013.01); A61N 1/3627 (2013.01); A61N 1/056 (2013.01); A61N 1/37 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for characterizing an accessibility of potential left ventricular stimulus sites in connection with surgical planning for transvenous implant of a cardiac medical lead in or near a heart of a patient are provided. The method and system include obtaining image data representative of a coronary venous system for the heart of the patient to receive the lead. The method and system generate a venous map, based on the image data, representative of venous pathways for the heart of the patient. The method and system analyze the venous map to identify pathway features of interest (PFOI) within at least one select region of the venous pathways. The method and system assign scores to the PFOI based on at least one of predetermined feature-complexity relations or physician-entered complexity updates. The method and system display treatment planning information to a user based on the scores.


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