Direct imaging of transvenous radiofrequency cardiac ablation using a steerable fiberoptic infrared endoscope

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1116-1121

  Knight, Bradley P ^a,e   Burke, Martin C ^a   Hong, Thomas E ^a   McAuley, Al ^a   Amundson, David ^d   Hanlin, John ^d   Blankenship, Larry ^d   Ferguson Jr , T Bruce ^c   Nazarian, Saman ^b   Berger, Ronald D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Cardio Optics Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Endoscope; Imaging; Infrared; Radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CATHETER ABLATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOG; ENDOCARDIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; CATHETER ABLATION; DOGS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ENDOCARDIUM; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 26944487261     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.07.010     Document Type: Article

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