Tissue ablation and monitoring thereof
AssigneeBoston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
InventorsAmr Salahieh, John P. Claude, Tom Saul
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Abstract
An ablation catheter including an elongate shaft, an inflatable balloon positioned at a distal region of the elongate shaft, a first ablation electrode disposed outside of and carried by an outer surface of the inflatable balloon, a first ultrasound transducer disposed outside of the inflatable balloon, and a flexible circuit. The flexible circuit includes a first conductor and a second conductor and is disposed outside of and carried by the outer surface of the inflatable balloon. The first conductor is in electrical communication with the first ablation electrode, and the second conductor in electrical communication with the first ultrasound transducer.
Claims14
An ablation catheter, comprising:
- an elongate shaft;
- an inflatable balloon positioned at a distal region of the elongate shaft;
- a first ablation electrode disposed outside of and carried by an outer surface of the inflatable balloon;
- a first ultrasound transducer disposed outside of the inflatable balloon and configured to monitor a characteristic associated with an ablation process;
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- a flexible circuit, including a substrate layer, a first conductor and a second conductor, the flexible circuit disposed outside of and carried by the outer surface of the inflatable balloon, the first conductor in electrical communication with the first ablation electrode, and the second conductor in electrical communication with the first ultrasound transducer,
- wherein the first ablation electrode is disposed over the substrate layer, and wherein the first ultrasound transducer is disposed on the substrate layer and is encapsulated by the first ablation electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.