Method and apparatus for ablation planning and control
AssigneeBiosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
InventorsAkram Zoabi, Fady Massarwi
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Abstract
A method for visualizing ablation includes displaying to a user a three-dimensional (3D) tube that visually represents a region for ablation in tissue of a patient. Ablation information, which specifies one or more ablation locations along the 3D tube and one or more respective ablation configurations for ablating in the ablation locations, is received from the user. An estimated impact of the ablation in the tissue is displayed to the user on the 3D tube based on the ablation locations and the corresponding ablation configurations.
Claims18
A computer implemented method for visualizing ablation, the method comprising:
- generating in a processor, a three-dimensional (3D) tube having a toroidal shape, the 3D tube visually representing a region for ablation in tissue of a patient;
- displaying to a user on a display device operatively connected to the processor the 3D tube;
- receiving from an input device operatively connected to the processor, user input ablation information that specifies one or more ablation locations along the 3D tube, and one or more respective ablation configurations for ablating in the ablation locations;
- calculating an estimated impact of ablation, including boundaries of an estimated ablation lesion size assuming the respective one or more ablation configurations were applied to the one or more ablation locations along the 3D tube;
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- displaying to the user on the display device, the 3D tube updated to visually show the estimated impact of the ablation in the tissue based on the one or more ablation locations and the corresponding one or more ablation configurations.
Apparatus for visualizing ablation, the apparatus comprising:
- an output device;
- an input device;
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- a processor operatively connected to the output device and the input device, the processor being configured to generated a three-dimensional (3D) tube having a toroidal shape that visually represents a region for ablation in tissue of a patient, to display to a user on the output device the 3D tube, to receive from the user through the input device ablation information that specifies one or more ablation locations along the 3D tube and one or more respective ablation configurations for ablating in the ablation locations, to calculate an estimated impact of ablation, including boundaries of an estimated ablation lesion size assuming the respective one or more ablation configurations were applied to the one or more ablation locations along the 3D tube, and to display to the user via the output device, the 3D tube, updated to visually show the estimated impact of the ablation in the tissue based on the one or more ablation locations and the corresponding one or more ablation configurations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.