Catheter having closed electrode assembly with spines of uniform length
AssigneeBiosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
InventorsSteven Wu, Sungwoo Min
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Abstract
A catheter comprising an elongated catheter body, and an electrode assembly distal of the catheter body, the assembly comprising a plurality of spines, wherein each spine has a distal end that is connected to the distal end of at least one other spine, wherein each spine has an electrode-carrying portion, the electrode-carrying portions of all spines of the assembly being in a single common plane, and wherein all spines of the assembly have a uniform exposed total length.
Claims15
A catheter comprising:
- an elongated catheter body;
- and
- an electrode assembly distal of the catheter body, the assembly comprising a plurality of spines,
- wherein each spine has a distal end that is connected to the distal end of at least one other spine,
- wherein each spine has an electrode-carrying portion, the electrode-carrying portions of all spines of the assembly being in a single common plane, and
- wherein all spines of the assembly have a uniform exposed total length.
The catheter of 1, wherein the array has longitudinal symmetry.
The catheter of claim I, wherein each spine has at least one irrigated ring electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.