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US 10,743,935 B2Granted
Microwave ablation generator control system
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorsJoseph D. Brannan, Joseph A. Paulus
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Abstract
A microwave energy delivery and measurement system, including a microwave energy source configured to delivery microwave energy to a microwave energy delivery device, a measurement system configured to measure at least one parameter of the microwave energy delivery device and a switching network configured to electrically isolate the microwave energy source and the measurement system. The measurement system is configured to actively measure in real time at least one parameter related to the microwave energy delivery device.
Claims19
A system comprising:
- a switch configured to couple to a transmission line and configured to connect a microwave energy source to a microwave energy delivery device for a first period and to disconnect the microwave energy source from the microwave energy delivery device for a second period;
- and
- a measurement system configured to couple to the transmission line and configured to measure at least one parameter of microwave energy propagating through the transmission line in at least the second period.
A method comprising:
- switching microwave energy between a microwave energy delivery device in a first period and a measurement system in a second period;
- and
- measuring, by the measurement system, at least one parameter of the microwave energy in at least the second period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.