Controversies in measuring repolarization using extracellular recordings: Why should we care?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1051-1052

  Wilson, Lance D ^a,b   Jeyaraj, Darwin ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ACCURACY; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRODE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ARRHYTHMIA; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 33747820489     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.06.020     Document Type: Editorial

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