US 2016/0354142 A1 · System and Method for Estimating A Treatment Region for a Medical Treatment Device

Abstract

A medical system and method for estimating a treatment region for a medical treatment device is provided. The system includes a memory; a processor coupled to the memory; and a treatment control module stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The treatment control module generates an estimated treatment region which is an estimate of a treatment region which would have been derived as a result of a numerical model analysis such as a finite element analysis. Advantageously, the estimated treatment region is generated using a fraction of the time it takes to generate the region using the numerical model analysis.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A system for interactively planning a treatment of a patient with an electroporation medical treatment device that applies irreversible electroporation (IRE) pulses through a plurality of electrodes defining a treatment region, the system comprising:

a memory;
a display device;
a processor coupled to the memory and the display device;
and
a treatment control module stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the treatment control module adapted to graphically display in the display device:
a treatment target area;
and
in real time a continuously changing treatment region and positions of the electrodes that apply IRE pulses as a user moves at least one of the electrodes.

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Facts

Application

15/239,229Filed 17 Aug 2016

Priority

31 Mar 2009

Published

8 Dec 2016

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

A61B 18/1206
By passing a current through the tissue to be heated, e.g. high-frequency current: generators therefor
A61B 34/10
Computer-aided surgery; Manipulators or robots specially adapted for use in surgery: computer-aided planning, simulation or modelling of surgical…
A61B 18/148
Probes or electrodes therefor: having a short, rigid shaft for accessing the inner body transcutaneously, e.g. for neurosurgery or arthroscopy
A61B 34/20
Computer-aided surgery; Manipulators or robots specially adapted for use in surgery: surgical navigation systems; Devices for tracking or guiding…

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Application61/165,280Us provisional application · filed 31 Mar 2009

Application61/238,843Us provisional application · filed 1 Sep 2009

Application12/751,826Division · filed 31 Mar 2010

Application15/239,229Division

US 2010/0250209 A1Published application

US 2016/0354142 A1This patent

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System and Method for Estimating A Treatment Region for a Medical Treatment Device

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