Hybrid RF/optical-coherence-Tomography catheter for tissue monitoring during Atrial Fibrillation (AF) ablation procedures

Authors

Selam Ahderom, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Valentina Tiporlini, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Peter Pratten
Kamal Alameh, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Title

2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart Cities: Improving Quality of Life Using ICT & IoT and AI (HONET-ICT)

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

School

Electron Science Research Institute

RAS ID

30306

Comments

Ahderom, S., Tiporlini, V., Pratten, P., & Alameh, K. (2019). Hybrid RF/optical-coherence-tomography catheter for tissue monitoring during Atrial Fibrillation (AF) ablation procedures. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart Cities: Improving Quality of Life Using ICT & IoT and AI (HONET-ICT) (pp. 148-151). Available here

Abstract

We demonstrate the viability of an advanced 9-french (~2.8mm diameter) hybrid RF/optical catheter for atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation procedures. The catheter integrates an array of optical fibres, capable of performing non-invasive discrete optical coherence tomography (OCT), into an irrigated RF catheter, thus enabling simultaneous real-Time tissue imaging and monitoring tissue ablation. Experimental results show that the use of OCT embedded in an RF ablation catheter would increase both safety and efficacy of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) ablation procedures.

DOI

10.1109/HONET.2019.8908101

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