The effect of ablation electrode length and catheter tip to endocardial orientation on radiofrequency lesion size in the canine right atrium

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 4-13

  Fu, Morgan ^a   Chen, Mien Cheng ^a   Wang, Chun Chieh ^a   Chang, Kung Cheng ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrium; Intracardiac ultrasound; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ELECTRODE; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETER; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; TITRIMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIA;

EID: 0036162048     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.00004.x     Document Type: Article

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