Patent ID: 11908584
Assignee: NE SCIENTIFIC, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method of modeling a necrotized tissue volume in an ablation procedure, the method comprising:
providing, at a radiology workstation, a computer model of a volume of human tissue;
simulating, by the radiology workstation, an ablation site in the computer model;
detecting, by the radiology workstation and in the computer model, at least a preferential pathway for heated vapor produced due to ablation of the tissue, wherein the at least a preferential pathway intersects the ablation site;
determining, by the radiology workstation, a proportion of vapor escaping to the at least a preferential pathway during an ablation procedure;
determining, by the radiology workstation, a heat distribution at the ablation site as a function of the distribution of vapor; and
generating, by the radiology workstation, a simulation of a necrotized tissue volume in the volume of human tissue, wherein the simulation of the necrotized tissue volume represents a volume of tissue necrotized by heat during an ablation procedure performed at the ablation site.