A family of intracardiac ultrasound imaging devices designed for guidance of electrophysiology ablation procedures.
Our Bioengineering Research Partnership grant, -High Frequency Ultrasound Arrays for Cardiac Imaging", including the individuals cited at the end of this paper - Douglas N. Stephens (UC Davis), Matthew O'Donnell (UW Seattle), Kai Thomenius (GE Global Research), Aaron M. Dentinger (GE Global Research), Douglas Wildes (GE Global Research), Peter Chen (St. Jude Medical), K. Kirk Shung (University of Southern California), Jonathan M. Cannata (University of Southern California), Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub (Stanford University), Omer Oralkan (Stanford University), Aman Mahajan (UCLA School of Medicine), Kalyanam Shivkumar (UCLA School of Medicine) and David J. Sahn (Oregon Health & Science University) - is in its sixth year of NIH funding, having proposed to develop a family of high frequency miniaturized forward and side-looking ultrasound imaging devices equipped with electrophysiology mapping and localization sensors and eventually to include a family of capactive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (cMUT) devices - a forward-looking cMUT MicroLinear array and a ring array capable of 3-dimensional imaging and a 5Fr lumen large enough to admit an electrode and ablation devices.
Sahn
David J
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Professor of Pediatrics, Diagnostic Radiology, OB/GYN & Biomedical Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239 USA. sahnd@ohsu.edu
Stephens
Douglas N
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Cannata
Jonathan M
JM
Shung
K
K
Oralkan
Omer
O
Nikoozadeh
Amin
A
Khuri-Yakub
B T Pierre
BT
Nguyen
Hien
H
Chen
Peter
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Dentinger
Aaron M
AM
Wildes
Douglas
D
Thomenius
Kai E
KE
Mahajan
Aman
A
Shivkumar
Kalyanam
K
O'Donnell
Matthew
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D018780:Body Surface Potential Mapping / Q000295:instrumentation; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D022062:Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac; D004867:Equipment Design; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D023421:Models, Animal; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013552:Swine; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000145:classification* / Q000295:instrumentation; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology