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US 2013/0211393 A1Published application
Determining Patient-Specific Vapor Treatment and Delivery Parameters
AssigneeUptake Medical Corp.
InventorsRobert L. Barry, Brian Cran, Erik Henne, Daniel Reddy, Dean Corcoran
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Abstract
Methods and systems for determining patient specific treatment parameters for delivering vapor to the lung to treat lung tissue. In some embodiments vapor is delivered to the lung to cause coagulative necrosis, inducing fibrosis and thereby reducing the volume of at least one segment of the lung. The delivery parameters can be adjusted depending on the desired degree of injury to be induced in the lung tissue.
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A system for determining treatment parameters and applying energy to lung tissue with vapor to selectively injure the tissue, the system comprising:
- a vapor generator adapted to generate a vapor from a liquid;
- a delivery catheter coupled to the vapor generator;
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- an electronic controller configured to determine an amount of energy to be delivered by the vapor to a lung segment to be treated based on a mass of the segment to be treated and a dosage, the controller also configured to determine a duration for delivering the vapor based on the amount of energy to be delivered and an energy flow rate of the vapor generator.
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