Abstract:
Medical devices and methods for using medical devices are disclosed. An example mapping medical device may include a catheter shaft with a plurality of electrodes. The catheter shaft may be coupled to a processor. The processor may be capable of collecting a first set of signals from a first location, collecting a second set of signals from a second location, characterizing the first set of signals over a first time period, characterizing the second set of signals over a second time period, comparing the first set of signals to the second set of signals and matching a first signal from the first set of signals with a second signal from the second set of signals.
Abstract:
An anatomical mapping system and method includes mapping electrodes configured to detect activation signals of cardiac activity. A processing system is configured to record the detected activation signals and generate a vector field for each sensed activation signal during each instance of the physiological activity. The processing system determines an onset time and alternative onset time candidates, identifies an initial vector field template based on a degree of similarity between the initial vector field and a vector field template from a bank of templates, then determines an optimized onset time for each activation signal based on a degree similarity between the onset time candidates and initial vector field template.
Abstract:
An anatomical mapping system and method includes mapping electrodes configured to detect activation signals of cardiac activity. A processing system is configured to record the detected activation signals and generate a vector field for each sensed activation signal during each instance of the physiological activity. The processing system determines an onset time and alternative onset time candidates, identifies an initial vector field template based on a degree of similarity between the initial vector field and a vector field template from a bank of templates, then determines an optimized onset time for each activation signal based on a degree similarity between the onset time candidates and initial vector field template.
Abstract:
A system and method for mapping an anatomical structure includes sensing activation signals of physiological activity with a plurality of mapping electrodes disposed in or near the anatomical structure. Patterns among the sensed activation signals are identified based on a similarity measure generated between each unique pair of identified patterns which are classified into groups based on a correlation between the corresponding pairs of similarity measures. A characteristic representation is determined for each group of similarity measures and displayed as a summary plot of the characteristic representations.
Abstract:
An anatomical mapping system and method includes mapping electrodes configured to detect activation signals of cardiac activity. A processing system is configured to record the detected activation signals and generate a vector field for each sensed activation signal during each instance of the physiological activity. The processing system determines an onset time and alternative onset time candidates, identifies an initial vector field template based on a degree of similarity between the initial vector field and a vector field template from a bank of templates, then determines an optimized onset time for each activation signal based on a degree similarity between the onset time candidates and initial vector field template.
Abstract:
A method for mapping an anatomical structure includes sensing activation signals of physiological activity with a plurality of electrodes disposed in or near the anatomical structure, each activation signal having an associated cycle length, estimating an action potential duration and diastolic interval for each cycle length, generating a restitution curve based on the estimated action potential duration and diastolic interval from a preceding cycle length, iteratively optimizing each estimated action potential duration and corresponding diastolic interval to maximize a functional relationship between the estimated action potential duration and estimated diastolic interval from preceding cycle length, and generating an action potential duration restitution curve based on the optimized action potential durations and diastolic intervals.
Abstract:
A method for mapping an anatomical structure includes sensing activation signals of intrinsic physiological activity with a plurality of electrodes disposed in or near the anatomical structure, identifying at least one of the electrodes not in direct contact with the anatomical structure, and adjusting the activation signals sensed by each of the plurality of electrodes based on the activation signals sensed by the identified at least one of the electrodes not in direct contact with the anatomical structure.
Abstract:
A catheter system includes a plurality of mapping electrodes, an electrode movable relative to the plurality of mapping electrodes, and a guidance system coupled to the plurality of mapping electrodes and the ablation electrode. The guidance system is configured to receive signals associated with intrinsic cardiac activity sensed by the plurality of mapping electrodes and the movable electrode, and to correlate in real-time the intrinsic cardiac activity sensed by the movable electrode with the intrinsic cardiac activity sensed by the plurality of mapping electrodes based on the signals received by the plurality of mapping electrodes and movable electrode to determine a location of the movable electrode with respect to the plurality of mapping electrodes.
Abstract:
Electrical activity propagation along an electrode array within a cardiac chamber is reconstructed. Signals are sampled from the electrode array including signals from a channel of interest. An N-dimensional signal vector is then constructed using signals from N neighboring channels referenced to the channel of interest. A change in the N-dimensional signal vector over time is then determined and compared to a predetermined threshold to establish whether local activation has occurred on the channel of interest.
Abstract:
Electrical activity propagation along an electrode array within a cardiac chamber is reconstructed. Signals are sampled from the electrode array and the signals are plotted in multi-dimensional space with each axis corresponding to a channel in the electrode array. An excursion direction of global activation in the multi-dimensional space is estimated and a change in vectors of the sampled signals over time is determined. Signals with vectors that change over time in the excursion direction are suppressed.