CardaxLab

Define the tissue, catheter, and energy settings for an engineering question. Start with a simple tissue slab or explore tissue blocks that represent specific anatomic scenarios.

• Set the tissue properties, wall thickness, surrounding fluid, and cooling assumptions.
• Choose a device form and adjust catheter orientation and contact.
• Explore modeled septal, left ventricular summit, and posterior left atrial scenarios.

Run a rotationally symmetric bench or a three-dimensional simulation. Follow the modeled current, heat transfer, and thermal injury through delivery and cooling.

• Compare irrigated and nonirrigated electrode setups.
• Explore power, voltage, and temperature control in supported generator models.
• Inspect temperature contours, thermal damage boundaries, and lesion cross sections.

Explore how electrode arrangement and pulse delivery change the modeled electric field. The bench can show predicted exposure and heating separately.

• Configure pulse amplitude and train structure for supported device models.
• Compare field contours and modeled electroporation thresholds.
• Inspect the thermal contribution of pulse delivery alongside the electric field.

Explore the mechanical and electrical consequences of changing the device or its position before committing to a physical bench experiment.

• Explore supported tip, loop, and grid electrode forms.
• Vary contact, insertion, and angle, and inspect the modeled tissue interface.
• Compare electrode spacing and the effect of orientation on the field.

Watch traces during a run, then inspect the result at multiple scales. Review a cross section to see where a threshold falls in the tissue.

• Inspect temperature maps and simulated temperature probes at different depths.
• Review simulated power, energy, and impedance traces where available.
• Use cross sections and 3D views together to inspect heating, field exposure, and modeled lesion geometry.

Use the workbench to evaluate a change in setup against a previous run. Compare the parameter differences and results in the same view.

• Compare lesion and energy measurements alongside the settings that produced them.
• Overlay traces and display cross sections on a shared color scale.
• Use CPU and supported Metal GPU solvers for applicable three-dimensional experiments.

Keep each study’s settings and assumptions attached to its runs. Review proposed parameters before they are used.

• Record a value, its unit, and where it came from.
• Review or reject suggestions from the optional local parameter assistant.
• Keep defaulted and unverified values visible when interpreting a run.

The workbench includes a validation workspace for reviewing benchmark questions, predicted ranges, and comparisons with measurements. Results depend on the modeled conditions.

• Inspect benchmark cases, comparison rules, and recorded verdicts.
• Use the RF and pulsed-field benches to explore relative effects and plan research experiments.
• Mapping, pacing, and defibrillation are broader research directions. The ablation results are not validated for clinical decisions.