Temperature control
As shown in Table 1, RF-regulation due to the temperature-control
setting was more frequently observed with the
FlexAbilityTM SE catheter at 30W (20% vs. 0%,
p<0.001) and 40W (46.7% vs. 3.3%, p<0.001)
settings. Further, as shown in Table 3, this finding was more marked
with perpendicular catheter placement than with a parallel angle at 30W
(31.1% vs. 8.9%, p=0.016) and 40W (66.7% vs. 26.7%) settings, which
resulted in lower average power delivery with perpendicular catheter
placement. In contrast, RF-delivery was not frequently regulated by the
temperature-control setting regardless of the catheter orientation in
any power settings with the TactiCathTM SE catheter
(Table 3).