Search results for "Profondeur de brulure"

CATHAR : CATHeter for ARRhythmias : determination of depth of burned biological tissues with microwave

2015

Cardiac arrhythmia substrates may be treated by intracardiac ablations which consist in burning specific atrial or ventricular endocardial substrates. Created lesions which are not transmural may be responsible for arrhythmia recurrences. To date, the depth of the lesion inside the endocardium can't be assessed accurately during the procedures. Our experimental work has focused on microwave characterization of biological tissues (in vitro) to assess the burn depth. Using a reflection technique with a coaxial probe in contact with tissues, measurements were made over a wide frequency range (100 MHz to 6 GHz). The measured reflection coefficient is known to be directly related to the dielectr…