Cardiac three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging and fluoroscopy merging: A new approach for electroanatomic mapping to assist catheter ablation

Circulation

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 3769-3776

  Ector, Joris ^a   De Buck, Stijn ^b   Adams, Jef ^a   Dymarkowski, Steven ^a   Bogaert, Jan ^a   Maes, Frederik ^b   Heidbüchel, Hein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atrium; Catheter ablation; Imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mapping

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY SINUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENDOCARDIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETER; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SIZE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARRHYTHMIA; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644876142     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.565002     Document Type: Article

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