A family of intracardiac ultrasound imaging devices designed for guidance of electrophysiology ablation procedures

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009:2009:1913-7. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332380.

Abstract

Our Bioengineering Research Partnership grant, -High Frequency Ultrasound Arrays for Cardiac Imaging", including the individuals cited at the end of this paper - Douglas N. Stephens (UC Davis), Matthew O'Donnell (UW Seattle), Kai Thomenius (GE Global Research), Aaron M. Dentinger (GE Global Research), Douglas Wildes (GE Global Research), Peter Chen (St. Jude Medical), K. Kirk Shung (University of Southern California), Jonathan M. Cannata (University of Southern California), Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub (Stanford University), Omer Oralkan (Stanford University), Aman Mahajan (UCLA School of Medicine), Kalyanam Shivkumar (UCLA School of Medicine) and David J. Sahn (Oregon Health & Science University) - is in its sixth year of NIH funding, having proposed to develop a family of high frequency miniaturized forward and side-looking ultrasound imaging devices equipped with electrophysiology mapping and localization sensors and eventually to include a family of capactive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (cMUT) devices - a forward-looking cMUT MicroLinear array and a ring array capable of 3-dimensional imaging and a 5Fr lumen large enough to admit an electrode and ablation devices.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Atrial Fibrillation / diagnostic imaging*
  • Atrial Fibrillation / epidemiology
  • Body Surface Potential Mapping / instrumentation
  • Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation
  • Cardiac Catheterization / methods*
  • Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac
  • Equipment Design
  • Heart Atria / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Models, Animal
  • Pulmonary Veins / diagnostic imaging
  • Swine
  • Ultrasonography, Interventional / classification*
  • Ultrasonography, Interventional / instrumentation
  • United States / epidemiology