#$%^&*AU2012201624B220140327.pdf#####ENERGY-BASED ABLATION COMPLETION ALGORITHM 5 ABSTRACT An electrosurgical generator (20) is disclosed. The generator (20) includes sensor circuitry (22) configured to measure voltage and current delivered to tissue and a controller (24) configured to measure time of energy delivery to tissue and to calculate energy delivered to tissue, the controller (24) further configured to estimate a size of an ablation volume as a 0 function of energy delivered to tissue and time and to calculate a growth rate of the ablation volume based on the estimated size. 22 6127977-14 20 ELECTROSURGICAL GENERATOR 8 6 FIG. 1A 20 ELECTROSURGICAL 21 8 GENERATORS, 1 FIG. 1B
