Systems and methods for activating transducers

One or more non-transitory computer-readable mediums storing a computer-executable program comprising:

• reception instructions configured to cause reception of user-based input indicating at least a selection of transducers from a plurality of transducers of a transducer-based device, the selected transducers activatable to form an ablation path in tissue;
• and
• activation instructions configured to cause activation, at least in part in response to the user-based input indicating at least the selection of the transducers, of multiple transducer sets from the selected transducers,
• wherein the activation of the multiple transducer sets from the selected transducers, according to the activation instructions, includes activation of at least some of the multiple transducer sets initiated at different times, and
• wherein the activation of the multiple transducer sets from the selected transducers, according to the activation instructions, includes activation of at least one transducer set of the multiple transducer sets initiated after completion of the activation of at least one other transducer set of the multiple transducer sets, and
• wherein the activation of the multiple transducer sets from the selected transducers, according to the activation instructions, includes activation of at least two physically non-adjacent transducer sets of the multiple transducer sets occurring at least in part concurrently, the at least two physically non-adjacent transducer sets having at least one transducer of the transducer-based device physically located between them that is not in the at least two physically non-adjacent transducer sets.

A transducer-activation method executed by a data processing device system, the method comprising:

• receiving, via an input-output device system communicatively connected to the data processing device system, user-based input indicating at least a selection of transducers from a plurality of transducers of a transducer-based device, the selected transducers activatable to form an ablation path in tissue;
• and
• causing activation, via the input-output device system and at least in part in response to the user-based input indicating at least the selection of the transducers, of multiple transducer sets from the selected transducers,
• wherein the activation of the multiple transducer sets from the selected transducers includes activation of at least some of the multiple transducer sets initiated at different times, and
• wherein the activation of the multiple transducer sets from the selected transducers includes activation of at least one transducer set of the multiple transducer sets initiated after completion of the activation of at least one other transducer set of the multiple transducer sets, and
• wherein the activation of the multiple transducer sets from the selected transducers includes activation of at least two physically non-adjacent transducer sets of the multiple transducer sets occurring at least in part concurrently, the at least two physically non-adjacent transducer sets having at least one transducer of the transducer-based device physically located between them that is not in the at least two physically non-adjacent transducer sets.