Stuart J. Olstad;Axel Bertholds;Giovanni Leo;Nicolas Aeby;Pere Llosas
发明人:
Giovanni Leo,Nicolas Aeby,Stuart J. Olstad,Axel Bertholds,Pere Llosas
申请号：
US13447813
公开号：
US20120265102A1
申请日:
2012.04.16
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
An ablation catheter system configured with a compact force sensor at a distal end for detection of contact forces exerted on an end effector. The force sensor includes fiber optics operatively coupled with reflecting members on a structural member. In one embodiment, the optical fibers and reflecting members cooperate with the deformable structure to provide a variable gap interferometer for sensing deformation of the structural member due to contact force. In another embodiment, a change in the intensity of the reflected light is detected to measure the deformation. The measured deformations are then used to compute a contact force vector. In some embodiments, the force sensor is configured to passively compensate for temperature changes that otherwise lead to erroneous force indications. In other embodiments, the system actively compensates for errant force indications caused by temperature changes by measuring certain local temperatures of the structural member.
