Myocardial discontinuities: A substrate for producing virtual electrodes that directly excite the myocardium by shocks

Circulation

Volumn 97, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 1738-1745

  White, James B ^a   Walcott, Gregory P ^a   Pollard, Andrew E ^a   Ideker, Raymond E ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Defibrillation; Electrical stimulation; Excitation; Mapping

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DOG; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART EXCITATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0032485848     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.97.17.1738     Document Type: Article

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