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Patent US5954665 - Cardiac ablation catheter using correlation measure - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsApparatus for endocardiac therapy, including an elongate probe for insertion into the heart of a subject, the probe having distal and proximal ends. The probe includes an ablation device near the distal end of the probe for ablating heart tissue and at least two sensing electrodes, for sensing activation...http://www.google.com/patents/US5954665?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5954665 - Cardiac ablation catheter using correlation measureAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS5954665 APublication typeGrantApplication numberUS 08/956,687Publication dateSep 21, 1999Filing dateOct 23, 1997Priority dateJun 7, 1995Fee statusPaidAlso published asCA2250805A1, CA2250805C, DE69817723D1, DE69817723T2, EP0911059A2, EP0911059A3, EP0911059B1Publication number08956687, 956687, US 5954665 A, US 5954665A, US-A-5954665, US5954665 A, US5954665AInventorsShlomo Ben-HaimOriginal AssigneeBiosense, Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (58), Non-Patent Citations (73), Referenced by (207), Classifications (30), Legal Events (6) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetCardiac ablation catheter using correlation measure
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