Assessment of myocardial lesion size during in vitro radio frequency catheter ablation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 768-776

  He, Ding Sheng ^a   Bosnos, Michael ^b   Mays, Mary Z ^a   Marcus, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Catheter ablation; Impedance

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRODES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TISSUE;

RADIO FREQUENCY;

CATHETERS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CATTLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; IMPEDANCE; NONHUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MYOCARDIUM; RADIO WAVES; STATISTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037937250     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.812161     Document Type: Article

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