Changes in tissue optical properties due to radio-frequency ablation of myocardium

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 403-409

  Swartling, Johannes ^a   Palsson S ^a   Platonov, P ^b   Olsson, S B ^b   Andersson Engels, S ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Cardiology; Monte Carlo simulations; Scattering; Spectroscopy; Tissue optics

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHROMOPHORES; HEMOGLOBIN; MEDICAL COMPUTING; OPACITY; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SCATTERING; TISSUE;

TISSUE ABLATIONS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

HEMOGLOBIN; MYOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OPTICS; SWINE;

EID: 0041307311     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02348082     Document Type: Article

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