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US 2026/0215839 A1Published application
Mitigating needle tract seeding in ablation procedures
AssigneeNeuwave Medical, Inc.
InventorMatthew SCHANING
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Abstract
A system is disclosed that comprises an ablation probe including an antenna and a controller in operable communication with the ablation probe and a display. The controller is operable to display, on the display, an image of the ablation probe in a needle tract in the patient, control the antenna to emit energy in the needle tract, and display, on the image, portions of the needle tract expected to have failed to receive energy from the antenna.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- an ablation probe including an antenna;
- and
- a controller in operable communication with the ablation probe and a display, wherein the controller is operable to:
- display, on the display, an image of the ablation probe in a needle tract in the patient;
- control the antenna to emit energy in the needle tract;
- and
- display, on the image, portions of the needle tract expected to have failed to receive energy from the antenna.
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A method, comprising:
- detecting an ablation probe being positioned in a first needle tract within a patient;
- detecting the ablation probe being repositioned in a second needle tract within the patient;
- displaying, on a display, an image of the ablation probe in the second needle tract;
- controlling an antenna of the ablation probe to emit energy in the second needle tract;
- and
- displaying, on the image, portions of the first and second needle tracts expected to have failed to receive energy from the antenna.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:
- display, on a display, an image of an ablation probe in a needle tract in a patient;
- control an antenna of the ablation probe to emit energy in the needle tract;
- and
- display, on the image, portions of the needle tract expected to have failed to receive energy from the antenna.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.