System And Method For Targeting Catheter Electrodes

System And Method For Targeting Catheter Electrodes

Patent Number: WO 2011/057289 A2

Date Filed: May 12, 2011

Country Filed In: WIPO

Product Application: CGCI

A system and method is described for a catheter guidance system that allows an operator to use a map­ping catheter to specify tissue target lo­cations for the automatic guidance of a second therapeutic catheter. The opera­tor places a mapping catheter at a de­sired location and commands the catheter guidance system by either se­lecting a point on that catheter or one of the catheter electrode electrocardio­grams. The operator may target the se­lected dynamic location or tissue con­tact beyond that location on a specific side of the mapping catheter.

Field of Use: The Catheter Guidance Control and Imaging (CGCI) system was created to provide physicians the ability to guide a catheter through a patient's body using a robotically-controlled magnetic guidance system. Such a system provides the physician unprecedented accuracy in being able to navigate within the dynamic environment of the patient, create a detailed 3-D mapping, and perform a variety of catheter-based operations with precision control and an ability to return to target at the push of a button. Initial applications for the technology were for the field of Electrophysiology and specifically for the ablation of the heart to treat patients with AFib.