Mark Ibrahim, M.D., FACC, assistant professor of medicine and radiology, associate program director...
EP Mapping and Imaging Systems
This channel page contains news on new technology innovations for electrophysiology (EP) mapping and imaging systems used to guide transcatheter cardiac ablation procedures. These systems use mapping catheters that contain electrodes that measure the electrical activity of the cardiac tissue. This is transferred into mapping system software where a 3D model is created of the heart, a color-coded overlay showing the electrical waves generated during each heart beat, the touch points where the tissue was mapped, and showing the location of the catheter inside the heart. Tissue identified as having unhealthy electrical activity that is cause an arrhythmia can then be ablated directly or isolated using an ablation catheter to cause small burns/scar tissue that block electrical signals.
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Pierre Qian, MBBS, cardiac electrophysiologist fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital, explains how...
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May 15, 2019 — A new study shows electromechanical wave imaging is capable of localizing arrhythmias including atrial tachycardia (AT), atrial flutter (AFL), premature ventricular complexes (PVC...
A comparison between the EPstar 2F and 6F catheters from Baylis.
News | EP Lab | October 31, 2019
October 31, 2019 — Baylis Medical announced the first North American use of its EPstar Fixed...
News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems | October 15, 2019
October 15, 2019 — Kardium Inc. announced that the Globe...
News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems | October 09, 2019
October 9, 2019 — Acutus Medical and Innovative Health announced a partnership that will offer advanced...
The OPTIMA (Optimal Target Identification via Modelling of Arrhythmogenesis) simulator uses contrast-enhanced MRI scans to create personalized digital replicas of a patient's heart to guide catheter abation for atrial fibrillation. Image courtesy of Patrick M. Boyle and Natalia A. Trayanova.
News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems | August 19, 2019
August 19, 2019 — Scientists at Johns Hopkins have successfully created...
Videos | EP Lab | July 26, 2019
Videos | EP Lab | July 25, 2019
News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems | July 15, 2019
July 15, 2019 — Acutus Medical announced the publication of the UNCOVER AF study in...
News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems | July 05, 2019
Innovative Health Receives FDA Clearance to Reprocess Pentaray Nav Eco High-density Mapping Catheter
July 5, 2019 — Single-use cardiology medical device reprocessing company Innovative Health, received U.S. Food and...
Technology | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems | July 01, 2019
July 1, 2019 — Catheter Precision Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its...
Using human AFib simulations, the researchers demonstrated that their technique can stop the catheter at the right target and identify the source type with a 95.25 percent success rate. This new algorithm also is effective in scarred tissue, which makes ablation more challenging, and has a 99 percent detection rate regardless of the scar size. Image courtesy of Florida Atlantic University.
News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems | May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019 — Researchers have developed the first algorithm that can locate patient-specific...
Acutus Medical's acquisition of Rhythm Xience brings the Flextra steerable introducer sheath into Acutus Medical's product portfolio.
News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems | May 17, 2019
May 17, 2019 — At the 40th annual Heart Rhythm...
Data from the first-in-human use of Medtronic's extravascular ICD (EV-ICD) system was presented at HRS 2019.
Blog | HRS | May 16, 2019
The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) 2019 Annual...
Electromechanical Wave Imaging (EWI) is a new, high-frame rate 3-D rendered ultrasound technique that can noninvasively map the electromechanical activation of heart rhythm. This example shows the ECG tracings compared to the EWI image of the heart.
Feature | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems | May 15, 2019 | Dave Fornell, Editor
May 15, 2019 — A new study shows electromechanical wave imaging is capable of localizing arrhythmias including...
News | EP Mapping and Imaging Systems | May 09, 2019
May 9, 2019 — Philips announced a collaboration with Medtronic to further advance treatment of...
As interventional procedures become more complex, one of the biggest issues is the ability of operators to see the devices they are using in the soft tissue anatomy that is mostly invisible under 2-D fluoroscopy. Several companies have developed new navigation aids, including multimodality fusion imaging software from Philips, GE and Siemens. This image shows a new system being developed by Centerline Biomedical. There is a more detailed image below.
Feature | Cath Lab Navigation Aids | May 02, 2019 | Vikash Goel
When Andreas Grüntzig, father of...
