Surgery – Instruments – Electrical application
Patent
1996-12-10
2000-08-22
Peffley, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Electrical application
606 42, 600374, 607122, A61B 1739
Patent
active
061065226
ABSTRACT:
Systems and associated methods position arrays of multiple emitters of ablating energy in straight or curvilinear positions in contact with tissue to form elongated lesion patterns. The elongated lesion patterns can continuous or interrupted, depending upon the orientation of the energy emitters.
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Bourne Thomas M
Fleischman Sidney D.
Panescu Dorin
Swanson David K.
Whayne James G.
EP Technologies, Inc.
Peffley Michael
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