LocaLisa: New technique for real-time 3-dimensional localization of regular intracardiac electrodes

Circulation

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1312-1317

  Wittkampf, Fred H M ^a   Wever, Eric F D ^a   Derksen, Richard ^a   Wilde, Arthur A M ^b   Ramanna, Hemanth ^a   Hauer, Richard N W ^a   Robles De Medina, Etienne O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Electrophysiology; Mapping

Indexed keywords

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SKIN ELECTRODE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033574267     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.99.10.1312     Document Type: Article

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