System for automatic medical ablation control
First Claim
1. A system for heart ablation unit control, comprising:
- an input processor for acquiring electrophysiological signal data from a plurality of tissue locations of a heart and data indicating tissue thickness at said plurality of tissue locations;
a signal processor for processing the acquired electrophysiological signal data to,identify location of particular tissue sites of said plurality of tissue locations exhibiting electrical abnormality in said acquired electrophysiological signal data anddetermine an area of abnormal tissue associated with individual sites of said particular sites;
an ablation controller for automatically determining ablation pulse characteristics for use in ablating cardiac tissue at an individual site of said particular tissue sites in response to the acquired data indicating the thickness of tissue and determined area of abnormality of the individual site; and
a severity processor for processing the acquired electrophysiological signal data to determine a degree of severity of abnormality at each of said particular tissue sites and prioritizing order in which said particular tissue sites are ablated in response to the determined degree of severity, wherein said severity processor processes the acquired electrophysiological signal data to determine said degree of severity of abnormality by determining a measure of distortion in a P wave in said electrophysiological signal data in response to at least one of, (a) change in peak amplitude of said P wave, (b) change in dominant frequency of said P wave, (c) change in energy of said P wave and (d) change in time duration between successive peaks of said P wave.
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Abstract
A system provides heart ablation unit control. The system includes an input processor for acquiring electrophysiological signal data from multiple tissue locations of a heart and data indicating tissue thickness at the multiple tissue locations. A signal processor processes the acquired electrophysiological signal data to identify location of particular tissue sites of the multiple tissue locations exhibiting electrical abnormality in the acquired electrophysiological signal data and determines an area of abnormal tissue associated with individual sites of the particular sites. An ablation controller automatically determines ablation pulse characteristics for use in ablating cardiac tissue at an individual site of the particular tissue sites in response to the acquired data indicating the thickness of tissue and determined area of abnormality of the individual site.
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23 Claims
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1. A system for heart ablation unit control, comprising:
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an input processor for acquiring electrophysiological signal data from a plurality of tissue locations of a heart and data indicating tissue thickness at said plurality of tissue locations; a signal processor for processing the acquired electrophysiological signal data to, identify location of particular tissue sites of said plurality of tissue locations exhibiting electrical abnormality in said acquired electrophysiological signal data and determine an area of abnormal tissue associated with individual sites of said particular sites; an ablation controller for automatically determining ablation pulse characteristics for use in ablating cardiac tissue at an individual site of said particular tissue sites in response to the acquired data indicating the thickness of tissue and determined area of abnormality of the individual site; and a severity processor for processing the acquired electrophysiological signal data to determine a degree of severity of abnormality at each of said particular tissue sites and prioritizing order in which said particular tissue sites are ablated in response to the determined degree of severity, wherein said severity processor processes the acquired electrophysiological signal data to determine said degree of severity of abnormality by determining a measure of distortion in a P wave in said electrophysiological signal data in response to at least one of, (a) change in peak amplitude of said P wave, (b) change in dominant frequency of said P wave, (c) change in energy of said P wave and (d) change in time duration between successive peaks of said P wave. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for heart ablation unit control, comprising the activities of:
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acquiring electrophysiological signal data from a plurality of tissue locations of a heart and data indicating tissue thickness at said plurality of tissue locations; processing the acquired electrophysiological signal data to, identify location of particular tissue sites of said plurality of tissue locations exhibiting electrical abnormality in said acquired electrophysiological signal data and determine an area of abnormal tissue associated with individual sites of said particular sites; acquiring data indicating a measured dominant rotor frequency at said individual site; automatically determining ablation pulse characteristics comprising pulse frequency in response to the rotor frequency for use in ablating cardiac tissue at an individual site of said particular tissue sites in response to the acquired data indicating the thickness of tissue and determined area of abnormality of the individual site. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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21. A system for heart ablation unit control, comprising:
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an input processor for acquiring electrophysiological signal data from a plurality of tissue locations of a heart and data indicating tissue thickness at said plurality of tissue locations; a signal processor for processing the acquired electrophysiological signal data to, identify location of particular tissue sites of said plurality of tissue locations exhibiting electrical abnormality in said acquired electrophysiological signal data and determine an area of abnormal tissue associated with individual sites of said particular sites, wherein said input processor acquires data indicating a measured dominant rotor frequency at said individual site; and an ablation controller for automatically determining ablation pulse characteristics comprising pulse frequency in response to the rotor frequency for use in ablating cardiac tissue at an individual site of said particular tissue sites in response to the acquired data indicating the thickness of tissue and determined area of abnormality of the individual site. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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