FORCE SENSING CATHETER WITH IMPEDANCE-GUIDED ORIENTATION

    公开(公告)号:US20170215802A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-03

    申请号:US15418098

    申请日:2017-01-27

    Abstract: A catheter adapted to determine a contact force, the catheter including a proximal segment, a distal segment, and an elastic segment extending from the proximal segment to the distal segment. The distal segment includes a plurality of tip electrodes including at least three radial electrodes disposed about a circumference of the distal segment. The radial electrodes are configured to output electrical signals indicative of a contact vector of the contact force. The elastic segment includes a force sensing device configured to output an electrical signal indicative of a magnitude of an axial component of the contact force, wherein the contact force is determined by scaling the magnitude of the axial component of the contact force by the contact vector.

    MEDICAL DEVICES FOR MAPPING CARDIAC TISSUE
    4.
    发明申请
    MEDICAL DEVICES FOR MAPPING CARDIAC TISSUE 有权
    用于摄制心脏组织的医疗装置

    公开(公告)号:US20150366476A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-12-24

    申请号:US14744888

    申请日:2015-06-19

    Abstract: Medical devices and methods for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example medical device may include a system for mapping the electrical activity of the heart. The system may include a catheter shaft with a plurality of electrodes. The system may also include a processor. The processor may be capable of collecting a set of signals from at least one of the plurality of electrodes. The set of signals may be collected over a time period. The processor may also be capable of calculating at least one propagation vector from the set of signals, generating a data set from the at least one propagation vector, generating a statistical distribution of the data set and generating a visual representation of the statistical distribution.

    Abstract translation: 公开了用于制造和使用医疗装置的医疗装置和方法。 示例性医疗设备可以包括用于映射心脏的电活动的系统。 该系统可以包括具有多个电极的导管轴。 该系统还可以包括处理器。 处理器可以能够收集来自多个电极中的至少一个的一组信号。 可以在一段时间内收集信号集合。 处理器还可以能够从该组信号计算至少一个传播向量,从该至少一个传播向量生成数据集,生成数据集的统计分布并生成统计分布的视觉表示。

    Force sensing catheter with impedance-guided orientation

    公开(公告)号:US10595745B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-24

    申请号:US15418098

    申请日:2017-01-27

    Abstract: A catheter adapted to determine a contact force, the catheter including a proximal segment, a distal segment, and an elastic segment extending from the proximal segment to the distal segment. The distal segment includes a plurality of tip electrodes including at least three radial electrodes disposed about a circumference of the distal segment. The radial electrodes are configured to output electrical signals indicative of a contact vector of the contact force. The elastic segment includes a force sensing device configured to output an electrical signal indicative of a magnitude of an axial component of the contact force, wherein the contact force is determined by scaling the magnitude of the axial component of the contact force by the contact vector.

    Medical system for mapping cardiac tissue

    公开(公告)号:US10264985B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-23

    申请号:US16148904

    申请日:2018-10-01

    Abstract: Medical devices and methods for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example system for mapping the electrical activity of the heart includes a catheter shaft. The catheter shaft includes a plurality of electrodes including a first and a second electrode. The system also includes a processor. The processor is capable of collecting a first signal corresponding to a first electrode over a time period and generating a first time-frequency distribution corresponding to the first signal. The first time-frequency distribution includes a first dominant frequency value representation occurring at one or more first base frequencies. The processor is also capable of applying a filter to the first signal or derivatives thereof to determine whether the first dominant frequency value representation includes a single first dominant frequency value at a first base frequency or two or more first dominant frequency values at two or more base frequencies.

    DYNAMIC REPOLARIZATION SUBSTRATE MAPPING
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180368714A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-27

    申请号:US16013809

    申请日:2018-06-20

    Abstract: Methods and systems for cardiac mapping are disclosed. An example system includes a catheter shaft with one or more electrodes coupled to a distal end of the catheter shaft. Electrodes sense electrical signals at anatomical locations within a heart. A processor coupled to the catheter shaft acquires electrogram signals of the heart using the electrodes. Each electrogram signal relates to three-dimensional positional data corresponding to the anatomical locations. The processor also store the electrogram signals of the heart corresponding to electrical activities sensed at corresponding anatomical locations, calculate an activation recovery interval associated with each of the corresponding anatomical locations, determine spatial gradient data of the activation recovery interval based on a distance between at least two neighboring anatomical locations. The system also includes a display device to display a three-dimensional graphical representation of the spatial gradient data between the at least two neighboring anatomical.

    DYNAMIC REPOLARIZATION SUBSTRATE MAPPING
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180368713A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-27

    申请号:US16013146

    申请日:2018-06-20

    Abstract: Methods and systems for cardiac mapping are disclosed. An example system includes a catheter shaft with one or more electrodes coupled to a distal end of the catheter shaft. Electrodes sense electrical signals at anatomical locations within a heart. A processor coupled to the catheter shaft acquires electrogram signals of the heart using the electrodes. Each electrogram signal relates to three-dimensional positional data corresponding to the anatomical locations. The processor also store the electrogram signals of the heart corresponding to electrical activities sensed at corresponding anatomical locations, calculate an activation recovery interval associated with each of the corresponding anatomical locations, determine spatial gradient data of the activation recovery interval based on a distance between at least two neighboring anatomical locations. The system also includes a display device to display a three-dimensional graphical representation of the spatial gradient data between the at least two neighboring anatomical.

    STEAM POP PREVENTION USING LOCAL IMPEDANCE
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180338793A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-29

    申请号:US15986505

    申请日:2018-05-22

    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention facilitate real-time ablation lesion characteristic analysis. In an embodiment, an electrophysiology system comprises a catheter, a signal generator and a mapping processor. The catheter includes a flexible catheter body having a distal portion and a plurality of electrodes disposed on the distal portion. The signal generator is configured to generate an electrical signal by driving one or more currents between a first set of the plurality of electrodes, wherein a second set of the plurality of electrodes is configured to obtain an impedance measurement based on the electrical signal. Furthermore, the mapping processor configured to: receive the impedance measurement from the second set of electrodes; determine at least one impedance metric; and determine, based on the at least one impedance metric, a likelihood of an occurrence of a steam pop.

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