Clinical application of magnetocardiography

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 291-313

  Fenici, Riccardo ^a   Brisinda, Donatella ^a   Meloni, Anna Maria ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Cardiac source imaging; Cardiomyopathy; Contactless cardiac mapping; Electrophysiology; Fetal magnetocardiography; Ischemic heart disease; Magnetocardiography; Multimodal cardiac imaging; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; IMAGING SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARRHYTHMIA; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETICS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 18844434397     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737159.5.3.291     Document Type: Review

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