Patent ID: 9603661
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A method of controlling a catheter system including a frame member comprising a strip that is flexible, the frame member forming at least part of a frame that is selectively moveable between an unexpanded configuration and an expanded configuration, the catheter system further including a plurality of transducer elements located on the frame, the frame percutaneously deliverable to a bodily chamber in the unexpanded configuration and sized too large for percutaneous delivery to the bodily chamber in the expanded configuration, the method comprising: determining that a first one of the transducer elements and another one of the transducer elements overlap when the frame is in the expanded configuration based at least on a delivery of power, with the frame in the expanded configuration, to at least the first one of the transducer elements, the delivery of power causing at least the first one of the transducer elements to increase in temperature.