High-Intensity Ultrasound Catheter Ablation: Transmural Ventricular Lesions Through Transducer-Tissue Contact Sensing.
BACKGROUND High-intensity ultrasound (HIU) ablation can produce deep myocardial lesions but has been limited by the directional, side-facing transducer orientation, yielding inconsistent myocardial targeting with lesion efficiencies <75% and transmurality <60%. OBJECTIVE We designed HIU catheters and a real-time cont...