A system is provided that furnishes expert procedural guidance based upon patient-specific data gained from surgical instruments incorporating sensors on the instrument's working surface, one or more reference sensors placed about the patient, sensors implanted before, during or after the procedure, the patient's personal medical history, and patient status monitoring equipment. Embodiments include a system having a surgical instrument with a sensor for generating a signal indicative of a property of a subject tissue of the patient, which signal is converted into a current dataset and stored. A processor compares the current dataset with other previously stored datasets, and uses the comparison to assess a physical condition of the subject tissue and/or to guide a procedure being performed on the tissue.

A method, system, and device for electroporation. A method for electroporating tissue, the method may include positioning a medical device having a plurality of electrodes proximate an area of tissue, delivering electroporation energy to the plurality of electrodes with an energy generator, receiving data from the plurality of electrodes, determining whether an alert condition is present based upon the data received from the plurality of electrodes, and at least one of cease a delivery of electroporation energy to the plurality of electrodes and prevent the delivery of electroporation energy to the plurality of electrodes when a processing circuitry determines that an alert condition is present.

A method of generating a combined image of a body part from a sequence of partially overlapping source images of the body part, each of the partially overlapping source images showing the body part at one of a plurality of different times, the source images being ordered in the sequence according to the different times, the method including defining a temporally coherent sequence of transformations, for registering the partially overlapping source images in the sequence with each other, registering the source images to each other using the defined temporally coherent sequence of transformations, to obtain co-registered images, and combining at least some of the co-registered images into a combined image. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

An interactive treatment mapping and planning system enables a user to more quickly, thoroughly, and efficiently aggregate fibroid and/or treatment information from a user and/or one or more sets of databases, construct a fibroid map providing a visual representation of the aggregated fibroid information, generate information from the aggregated information about the fibroid to be treated and/or treatment procedure, develop a treatment plan based on the fibroid and/or treatment procedure information, provide real-time information gathered from treatment devices during the treatment procedure, and allow the user to interact with the treatment data.

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to the localization of an introducer sheath relative to an intravascular catheter. Further embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to the visualization of the introducer sheath on a graphical user interface of a navigation system.

A medical dilator includes an elongate member having a proximal end portion, an opposed distal end portion, and a lumen extending through the elongate member from the proximal end portion to the distal end portion. A dilating tip is at the distal end portion. The dilating tip has a first end of enlarged cross-sectional area and tapers going in the distal direction to a second end of reduced cross-sectional area. At least a first electrode is associated with the dilating tip. An electrical conductor is electrically connected to the first electrode and extends proximally from the first electrode towards the proximal end portion for electrical connection with an electro anatomical mapping system.

An electrophysiology catheter has a micro capacitive tactile sensor provided in the distal section. The distal section may include a tip electrode, a ring electrode and/or a balloon catheter adapted for tissue contact. The capacitive force sensor is configured to exhibit a change in capacitance with tissue contact wherein the force applied with tissue contact is measured and reliably calibrated in assessing and determining the applied force. The capacitive force sensor has a first plate affixed to a tissue contact portion of the catheter, a second plate configured for contact with the tissue, and an elastically compressible dielectric between the first and second plates, wherein the force sensor has a first capacitance when the first and second plates are separated by a first distance, and the force sensor has a second capacitance when the first and second plates are separated by a second different from the first distance.

Systems, devices and methods of determining orientation of a distal end of a medical instrument (e.g., electrode-tissue orientation of an RF ablation catheter) are described herein. One or more processors may be configured to receive temperature measurements from each of a plurality of temperature-measurement devices distributed along a length of the distal end of the medical instrument and determine the orientation from a group of two or more possible orientation options based on whether temperature measurement values or characteristics of temperature response determined from the temperature measurement values satisfy one or more orientation criteria.

The present disclosure relates generally to the field of energy transfer mapping, including fixtures with two-dimensional and three-dimensional sensor arrays. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices and methods for mapping of energy transfer from and/or to an instrument inserted within and/or into body tissue, including the depths and patterns of penetration and/or amounts of energy transfer to and/or from an instrument delivered within biological tissue or materials that mimic biological tissue, including within fixtures with three-dimensional temperature sensor arrays configured to simulate anatomical geometries such as the gastrointestinal (GI) or respiratory tract.

A system and method for achieving linear alignment between elements in a procedure are disclosed. The system and method include determining the axis of a first element, such as the ostium, of a plurality of elements utilized in the procedure, determining the axis of a second element, such as a catheter, of the plurality of elements utilized in the procedure, and aligning the determined axis of the first element and the determined axis of the second element. The method may include further determining the axis of a third element, such as a sheath of the catheter, of the plurality of elements utilized in the procedure and aligning the determined axis of the third element with the aligned axis of the first element and the aligned axis of the second element.