Measurement techniques and assessment of in vivo forces on cardiac leads

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED

Volumn 50, Issue , 2001, Pages 507-508

  Berglund, Lawrence ^a   Zhang, John Y ^b   Gilkerson, Jim ^b   Rea, Robert ^a   An, Kai Nan ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; CARDIOLOGY; DEFIBRILLATORS; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; PULSE GENERATORS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

FORCE TRANSDUCERS;

PACEMAKERS;

EID: 0242609895     PISSN: 10716947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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