Patent ID: 9011423
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: A61B,A61N,G06F

Abstract:
1. A transducer-activation system comprising: a data processing device system; an input-output device system communicatively connected to the data processing device system; and a memory device system communicatively connected to the data processing device system and storing a program executable by the data processing device system, the program comprising: graphical interface instructions configured to cause the input-output device system to display a graphical interface including a graphical representation of at least some of a plurality of graphical elements, each of the plurality of graphical elements respectively associated with a respective one of a plurality of transducer sets, each respective transducer set including at least one of a plurality of transducers included as part of a transducer-based device, and each respective transducer set having at least one different transducer than another of the other transducer sets; input instructions configured to cause reception of transducer data via the input-output device system, the transducer data indicating data acquired by the plurality of transducers; identification instructions configured to cause identification of ablation-ready transducers of the plurality of transducers as transducers that are adjacent a region of space deemed, based at least on an analysis of the transducer data, acceptable for ablation, and not-ablation-ready transducers of the plurality of transducers as transducers that are adjacent a region of space deemed, based at least on the analysis of the transducer data, not acceptable for ablation, wherein the graphical interface includes a first set of visual characteristics associated with the graphical elements that are associated with each of the transducers sets comprising the ablation-ready transducers, and includes a second set of visual characteristics associated with the graphical elements that are associated with the transducer sets comprising the not-ablation-ready transducers, the first set of visual characteristics being different than the second set of visual characteristics; ablation request instructions configured to cause reception of an ablation request from the input-output device system, the ablation request configured to request ablation by at least some of the plurality of transducers; activation instructions configured to, in response to receiving the ablation request from the input-output device system, cause energy from an energy source device system to be delivered to each of the plurality of ablation-ready transducers in the at least some of the plurality of transducers; and non-activation instructions configured to cause prevention of delivery of energy from the energy source device system to each of the plurality of not-ablation-ready transducers.