Surgery – Instruments – Heat application
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-10
2007-04-10
Peffley, Michael (Department: 3739)
Surgery
Instruments
Heat application
C606S041000, C600S439000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10370134
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus is provided for performing ablation of cardiac tissue using ultrasound. The apparatus includes a beacon, adapted to be placed at a cardiac site in a body of a subject. The apparatus further includes a set of ultrasound transducers, each transducer adapted to detect a respective ultrasound signal coming from the beacon. Each transducer is adapted to output a time-reversed ultrasound signal, reversed in time with respect to a property of at least one of the beacon signals, and configured to ablate the cardiac tissue.
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Govari Assaf
Schwartz Yitzhack
Biosense Inc.
Capezzuto Louis J.
Peffley Michael
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