Influence of High-Pass Filtering on Noncontact Mapping and Ablation of Atrial Tachycardias

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-46

  Schneider, Michael A E ^a,b   Ndrepepa, Gjin ^a   Weber, Stefan ^a   Deisenhofer, Isabel ^a   Schömig, Albert ^a   Schmitt, Claus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Cardiovascular Clinic Bad Neustadt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial tachycardia; Catheter ablation; High pass filter; Noncontact mapping

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL;

EID: 1642438915     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00383.x     Document Type: Article

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