Smart Catheter for Target Mapping of Atrial Fibrillation
Project Abstract:
We propose to develop a diagnostic mapping catheter to aid in the ablative treatment of atrial fibrillation AF with the capability of locating sources of AF for targeted ablation The proposed device is a smart catheter comprised of two components a novel mapping catheter and an analysis algorithm This project will fund the fabrication and evaluation assessment of a 24 electrode catheter having the unique design of a 2D matrix sheet of bipolar pairs in a fixed distribution to be used in conjunction with the algorithm which has been validated in patients with AF The design of the mapping catheter and development of the algorithm is driven by our research data confirming the existence of AF sources in patients
