Patent 12133671 was granted and assigned to Case Western Reserve University on November, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with characterizing Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA) lesions using Optica Coherence Tomography (OCT) are described. One example method includes acquiring an OCT signal from a Region Of Interest (ROI) in an ablated material. The example method may also include determining whether a lesion was formed by the ablation by analyzing optical properties of the ROI as recorded in the OCT signal.