Dynamic changes in electrogram morphology at functional lines of block in reentrant circuits during ventricular tachycardia in the infarcted canine heart: A new method to localize reentrant circuits from electrogram features using adaptive template matching

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 194-213

  Ciaccio, Edward J ^a   Scheinman, Melvin M ^b   Fridman, Vitaliy ^a   Schmitt, Heiko ^a   Coromilas, James ^a   Wit, Andrew L ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Electrograms; Mapping; Reentry; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0032966995     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.1999.tb00661.x     Document Type: Article

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