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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jul 9.
Published in final edited form as: Med Eng Phys. 2007 Jun 27;30(4):454–459. doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.05.004

Table 2.

Average procedural time and coagulated surface area for the 7 trials. The device fully coagulated 0.90 and 1.19 cm2/min in the 4 blade and 5 to 7 blade procedures, respectively

No. blades No. trials Proc. Time(min) Area (cm2) Coag. Rate cm2/min)
4 4 6.8 ± 0.5 6.0 ± 1.4 0.90 ± 0.10
5 to 7 3 11.3 ± 1.2 13.5 ± 1.3 1.19 ± 0.24