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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:
Jul. 04, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (US);

Inventors:

Peter S Spector, Burlington, VT (US);

Jason H Bates, South Burlington, VT (US);

Assignee:

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, Burlington, VT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/046 (2006.01); A61B 5/042 (2006.01); A61B 5/04 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/04014 (2013.01); A61B 5/046 (2013.01); A61B 5/04017 (2013.01); A61B 5/0422 (2013.01); A61B 18/14 (2013.01); A61B 18/1492 (2013.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00053 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 2562/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for mapping cardiac fibrillation in a patient include deploying a catheter in the patient's heart, wherein the catheter includes an array of at least one stacked electrode pair having a first electrode and a second electrode. Each electrode pair is configured to be orthogonal to the surface of a cardiac tissue substrate. A plurality of measurements are obtained from the electrode array in response to electrical activity in the cardiac tissue substrate for a duration indicative of a number of electrical circuit cores and distribution of the electrical circuit cores across the cardiac tissue substrate in the patient's heart. These are processed to obtain the density and distribution of electrical circuit cores which are mapped onto a representation of the patient's heart.


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