Title
Technical note: on cardiac ablation lesion visualization for image-guided therapy monitoring.
Abstract
The delivery of insufficient thermal dose is a significant contributor to incomplete tissue ablation and leads to arrhythmia recurrence and a large number of patients requiring repeat procedures. In concert with ongoing research efforts aimed at better characterizing the RF energy delivery, here we propose a method that entails modeling and visualization of the lesions in real time. The described image-based ablation model relies on classical heat transfer principles to estimate tissue temperature in response to the ablation parameters, tissue properties, and duration. The ablation lesion quality, geometry, and overall progression is quantified on a voxel-by-voxel basis according to each voxel's cumulative temperature and time exposure. The model was evaluated both numerically under different parameter conditions, as well as experimentally, using ex vivo bovine tissue samples. This study suggests that the proposed technique provides reasonably accurate and sufficiently fast visualizations of the delivered ablation lesions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1117/12.2322523
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
image-guided cardiac catheter ablation,radiofrequency ablation,ablation lesion modeling and monitoring,model evaluation and validation,lesion visualization
Conference
10576
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0277-786X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8