The effects of electrode-tissue contact on radiofrequency lesion generation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 12 I, 1997, Pages 2899-2910

  Avitall, Boaz ^a,b   Mughal, Kashef ^a   Hare, John ^a   Helms, Ray ^a   Krum, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Contact; Impedance; Radiofrequency; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; DEFIBRILLATION; DOG; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; IMPEDANCE; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATHETER ABLATION; DOGS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; HEAT; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERICARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0031436188     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb05458.x     Document Type: Article

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