Patent ID: 9468492
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. An electrosurgical system, comprising: an electrosurgical power generating source; an energy-delivery device operably associated with (i) the electrosurgical power generating source and (ii) thermal profile data, the energy-delivery device including at least one probe insertable into a target tissue; a processor unit; and an imaging system capable of (i) generating image data including tissue temperature information, the tissue temperature information including a plurality of temperature bands, and (ii) thresholding the image data to detect an inner boundary and an outer boundary of each of the plurality of temperature bands, wherein the processor unit is disposed in operative communication with the imaging system and adapted to analyze the image data, and the processor unit is further adapted to determine at least one operating parameter associated with the electrosurgical power generating source during a treatment procedure, wherein the processor unit is configured to calculate a specific absorption rate (SAR) by factoring in a change in temperature determined by a positional transition of either the inner or the outer boundary of at least one of the plurality of temperature bands, design of the energy-delivery device, number of other energy-delivery devices used with the energy-delivery device, ablation time, and wattage of the ablation energy.