Title:
ELECTRODE CONTACT EVALUATION AND ABLATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF USE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2001022895
Kind Code:
A8
Abstract:
The system and methods of the invention gauge the amount or quality of the contact between body tissue and one or more electrodes supported on a catheter. In further aspects, the invention concerns methods for controlling power delivery to particular electrodes on a catheter in response to tissue contact data derived from that electrode or other electrodes during the ablation procedure. The invention monitors and processes information concerning the number of pulses of pulsed radio-frequency energy that are delivered during an ablation procedure. The amount or quality of tissue contact is gauged by comparing the number of pulses delivered to a particular electrode during the interval to either the number of pulses delivered to at least one other electrode of the plural electrodes or data derived during the ablation procedure. The system and method can provide a display of the gauge of tissue contact among the various electrodes and also can automatically control distribution of pulsed RF energy in response to the gauge of tissue contact.
Inventors:
FALWELL GARY S
Application Number:
PCT/US2000/025440
Publication Date:
October 11, 2001
Filing Date:
September 14, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BARD INC C R (US)
International Classes:
A61B18/14; A61B18/12; (IPC1-7): A61B18/12; A61B18/14
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