Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus for and method of terminating a high frequency arrhythmic electric state of a biological tissue
- Patent Title (中): 用于终止生物组织的高频心律不齐电状态的装置和方法
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Application No.: US14105243Application Date: 2013-12-13
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Publication No.: US08886309B2Publication Date: 2014-11-11
- Inventor: Stefan Luther , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Valentin Krinski , Robert Gilmour , Flavio H. Fenton
- Applicant: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V. , Cornell University
- Applicant Address: DE Munich US NY Ithaca
- Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften E.V.,Cornell University
- Current Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften E.V.,Cornell University
- Current Assignee Address: DE Munich US NY Ithaca
- Agency: Thomas | Horstemeyer, LLP
- Main IPC: A61N1/00
- IPC: A61N1/00 ; A61N1/37 ; A61N1/362

Abstract:
For terminating a high frequency arrhythmic electric state of a biological tissue an electric signal representative of the present electric state of the biological tissue is obtained. From the electric signal a dominant frequency of the present electric state is determined, and from the dominant frequency it is determined whether the present electric state of the biological tissue is a high frequency arrhythmic electric state. Further, a dominance level indicative of how dominant the dominant frequency is in the high frequency arrhythmic electric state is determined from the electric signal. Depending on the at least one dominant frequency, at least one series of electric pulses at intervals is generated. The electric pulses are applied to the biological tissue starting at a point in time at which the dominance level exceeds a predefined threshold value for the biological tissue being in a determined high frequency arrhythmic electric state.
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