Stern acquires KODEX-EPD Cardio Imaging and Mapping System

Despite advances in imaging and mapping technologies for Electrophysiology (EP), physicians are still encountering difficult challenges when performing interventions like cryo and RF ablations. The new KODEX-EPD system is an open platform that works with any validated EP catheter and uses dielectric imaging to give physicians new insights to guide their interventions. It has been developed to address key unmet needs in EP procedures today. It is a completely new approach to cardiac imaging that shows real-time HD imaging delivering true anatomy and creates voltage and activation maps..

Dielectric imaging uses electric fields to locate validated catheters and provide structural information of anatomy. This technology overcomes many limitations of the current technologies and offers new benefits for both cryo and RF ablation procedures. Dielectric imaging creates high-definition 3D images of a patient's cardiac structures in real time, without using ionizing radiation, contrast media or touching the endocardium. This technology has the potential to provide new insights into complex cardiac structures to greatly simplify navigation and therapy delivery.