Detection of reduced-control cardiac zones
First Claim
1. Apparatus comprising circuitry configured to compare portions of a viability image comprising indications of tissue vitality for non-neural tissue within an organ of a patient with portions of a nervous control image comprising indications of autonomic innervation of the non-neural tissue;
- and to generate a map indicating portions of the non-neural tissue with viability and reduced autonomic nervous control, based on the comparison.
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Abstract
A method of treating cardiac arrhythmia in a heart, including (i) determining that cardiac tissue is viable but with reduced innervation; and (ii) ablating the tissue to reduce a prevalence of arrhythmia in said heart. Optionally, the determining comprises detecting portions of heart wall which lack electrical activity. Optionally, at least some tissue which is viable but lacks nervous control is ablated, for example, to reduce or avoid arrhythmia.
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21 Claims
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1. Apparatus comprising circuitry configured to compare portions of a viability image comprising indications of tissue vitality for non-neural tissue within an organ of a patient with portions of a nervous control image comprising indications of autonomic innervation of the non-neural tissue;
- and to generate a map indicating portions of the non-neural tissue with viability and reduced autonomic nervous control, based on the comparison.
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12. A system for treating dysfunction of an organ, comprising:
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a modeling unit, comprising circuitry configured to receive functional image data of said organ and determine therefrom a model identifying; regions of viability of non-neural tissue of the organ, and regions of reduced autonomic innervation of the non-neural tissue of the organ; a treatment planning unit, comprising circuitry configured to; match said model with a disease-treatment template, according to a disease condition modeled in said template, and provide a treatment plan associated with said template, according to said match. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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