Patent ID: 11857253
Assignee: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 9:
10. A method for determining a property of and ablating tissue, the method comprising:
transmitting, with at least one antenna of a catheter, a transmitted assessment signal having a frequency of at least 1 MHz to the tissue, the antenna having a direct electrical contact with the tissue;
receiving, with the at least one antenna, a received assessment signal having a frequency of at least 1 MHz from the tissue;
detecting, with a processor of a network analyzer and signal processing device, an electrical property of the received assessment signal;
determining, with the processor, a property of the tissue based on the detected electrical property of the received assessment signal; and
generating an ablation signal based on the property of the tissue and transmitting, with the at least one antenna, the ablation signal, simultaneously with additional assessment signals, to the tissue.