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Granted Patent B2
US 12,551,270 · App. 17/848,158 · Granted Feb 17, 2026

Graphical contact quality indicator for balloon catheter navigation

Inventors: Qun Sha (Diamond Bar, CA); Avigdor Rosenberg (Kiryat Tivon, IL); Eid Adawi (Tur'an, IL); Tushar Sharma (Arcadia, CA); Ahmed Abdelaal (Mission Viejo, CA); Xiangming Zhang (Irvine, CA)
Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
A61B18/1492A61B5/0538A61B5/287A61B5/7435A61B34/25A61B2018/0022A61B2018/00577A61B2562/0271
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Patent No.
US 12,551,270
App. No.
17/848,158
Granted
Feb 17, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus for medical treatment includes a probe including multiple electrodes and configured to be inserted in a body cavity of a patient so as to bring the multiple electrodes into contact with tissue in the body cavity. A processor is configured to assess one or more individual contact quality indicators with respect to the contact between each of the multiple electrodes and the tissue, to compute one or more global contact quality measures based on the individual contact quality indicators of the multiple electrodes, to compare the one or more global contact quality measures to a predefined global contact quality criterion, and to display on a display screen an icon indicating whether the global contact quality measures satisfy the predefined global contact quality criterion.

Claims (47)

1 . An apparatus for medical treatment, comprising:

a probe comprising multiple electrodes and configured to be inserted in a body cavity of a patient so as to bring the multiple electrodes into contact with tissue in the body cavity;

a display screen;

a processor configured to assess one or more individual contact quality indicators with respect to the contact between each of the multiple electrodes and the tissue, wherein the one or more individual contact quality indicators comprise an electrical impedance measured between each of the multiple electrodes and the tissue, to compute one or more global contact quality measures based on the individual contact quality indicators of the multiple electrodes, to compare the one or more global contact quality measures to a predefined global contact quality criterion, and to display on the display screen an icon indicating whether the global contact quality measures satisfy the predefined global contact quality criterion; and

an electrical signal generator, which is configured to, based on one or more control signals received from the processor, apply radio frequency (RF) energy simultaneously to the multiple electrodes with energy sufficient to ablate the tissue contacted by the electrodes, the processor being further configured to adjust the RF energy applied to the multiple electrodes, wherein the processor is configured to measure, while applying the RF energy to the multiple electrodes, the electrical impedance between each of the multiple electrodes and the tissue, and to compute a respective ablation quality measure for each of the multiple electrodes responsively at least in part to the measured impedance, and to display on the display screen one or more icons indicating success or failure of the ablation at each of the electrodes.

2 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more global contact quality measures comprise at least one measure selected from a group consisting of a mean of the measured electrical impedances and a variability of the measured electrical impedances.

3 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , and wherein the probe comprises multiple temperature sensors associated with the electrodes, and wherein the individual contact quality indicators comprise a temperature measured by each of the multiple temperature sensors.

4 . The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the one or more global contact quality measures comprise at least one measure selected from a group consisting of a minimum of the measured temperatures, a maximum of the measured temperatures, and a variability of the measured temperatures.

5 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the predefined global contact quality criterion comprises one or more thresholds, to which the processor compares the one or more global quality measures.

6 . The apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the one or more thresholds are selected from a group consisting of a mean electrical impedance threshold, an electrical impedance variability threshold, a temperature threshold, and a temperature variability threshold.

7 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the icon is colored responsively to a comparison between the global contact quality measures and the predefined global contact quality criterion.

8 . The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is configured to apply a first color to the icon when the global contact quality measures satisfy the predefined global contact quality criterion, to apply a second color to the icon when the global contact quality measures do not fully satisfy the predefined global contact quality criterion, and to apply a third color to the icon when the global contact quality measures fall outside a predefined safety range.

9 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the probe comprises a balloon, wherein the multiple electrodes are disposed around a circumference of the balloon.

10 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to measure, while applying the RF energy to the multiple electrodes, a temperature at each of the multiple electrodes, and to compute a respective ablation quality measure for each of the multiple electrodes responsively to the measured impedance and temperature.

11 . The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the processor is configured to display the respective ablation quality measure for each of the multiple electrodes on the display screen.

12 . A method for displaying information, comprising:

providing a probe comprising multiple electrodes and configured to be inserted in a body cavity of a patient so as to bring the multiple electrodes into contact with tissue in the body cavity;

while the probe is in the body cavity, assessing one or more individual contact quality indicators with respect to the contact between each of the multiple electrodes and the tissue, wherein the one or more individual contact quality indicators comprise an electrical impedance measured between each of the multiple electrodes and the tissue;

computing one or more global contact quality measures based on the individual contact quality indicators of the multiple electrodes;

comparing the one or more global contact quality measures to a predefined global contact quality criterion;

displaying on a display screen an icon indicating whether the global contact quality measures satisfy the predefined global contact quality criterion;

applying radio frequency (RF) energy simultaneously to the multiple electrodes with energy sufficient to ablate the tissue contacted by the electrodes;

measuring, while applying the RF energy to the multiple electrodes, the electrical impedance between each of the multiple electrodes and the tissue;

computing a respective ablation quality measure for each of the multiple electrodes responsively at least in part to the measured impedance; and

displaying on the display screen one or more icons indicating success or failure of the ablation at each of the electrodes.

13 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein computing the one or more global contact quality measures comprises computing at least one measure selected from a group consisting of a mean of the measured electrical impedances and a variability of the measured electrical impedances.

14 . The method according to claim 12 , wherein assessing the one or more individual contact quality indicators comprise measuring respective temperatures at the electrodes.

15 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein computing one or more global contact quality measures comprises computing at least one measure selected from a group consisting of a minimum of the measured temperatures, a maximum of the measured temperatures, and a variability of the measured temperatures.

16 . The method according to claim 12 , wherein comparing the one or more global contact quality measures comprises comparing the one or more global contact quality measures to one or more thresholds.

17 . The method according to claim 16 , wherein the one or more thresholds are selected from a group consisting of a mean electrical impedance threshold, an electrical impedance variability threshold, a temperature threshold, and a temperature variability threshold.

18 . The method according to claim 12 , wherein displaying the icon comprises coloring the icon responsively to a comparison between the global contact quality measures and the predefined global contact quality criterion.

19 . The method according to claim 18 , wherein coloring the icon comprises applying a first color to the icon when the global contact quality measures satisfy the predefined global contact quality criterion, applying a second color to the icon when the global contact quality measures do not fully satisfy the predefined global contact quality criterion, and applying a third color to the icon when the global contact quality measures fall outside a predefined safety range.

20 . The method according to claim 12 , and comprising measuring, while applying the RF energy to the multiple electrodes a temperature at each of the multiple temperature sensors, and computing a respective ablation quality measure for each of the multiple electrodes responsively to the measured impedance and temperature.

21 . The method according to claim 20 , comprising displaying the respective ablation quality measure for each of the multiple electrodes on the display screen.

22 . The method according to claim 12 , comprising computing and displaying one or more clinical contact quality measures with respect to an alignment of the probe in the body cavity.

23 . An apparatus for medical treatment, comprising:

a probe comprising multiple electrodes and configured to be inserted in a body cavity of a patient so as to bring the multiple electrodes into contact with tissue in the body cavity;

a display screen;

a processor configured:

to assess one or more individual contact quality indicators with respect to the contact between each of the multiple electrodes and the tissue, wherein the one or more individual contact quality indicators comprise an electrical impedance measured between each of the multiple electrodes and the tissue,

to compute one or more global contact quality measures based on the individual contact quality indicators of the multiple electrodes,

to compare the one or more global contact quality measures to a predefined global contact quality criterion, and

to display on the display screen an icon selected from a plurality of icons, the plurality of icons comprising:

a first icon indicating the one or more global contact quality measures satisfy the predefined global contact quality criterion,

a second icon indicating the one or more global contact quality measures do not fully satisfy the predefined global contact quality criterion, and

a third icon indicating the global contact quality measures fall outside a predefined safety range; and

an electrical signal generator, which is configured to, based on one or more control signals received from the processor, apply radio frequency (RF) energy simultaneously to the multiple electrodes with energy sufficient to ablate the tissue contacted by the electrodes, the processor being further configured to adjust the RF energy applied to the multiple electrodes, wherein the processor is configured to measure, while applying the RF energy to the multiple electrodes, the electrical impedance between each of the multiple electrodes and the tissue, and to compute a respective ablation quality measure for each of the multiple electrodes responsively, at least in part to the measured impedance, and to display on the display screen the respective ablation quality measure for each of the multiple electrodes on the display screen.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 16, 2023
From: SHA, QUN; ROSENBERG, AVIGDOR; ADAWI, EID; SHARMA, TUSHAR; ABDELAAL, AHMED; ZHANG, XIANGMING
To: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
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