Optimizing catheter navigation for af ablation: Do not just follow the map!

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-285

  Ferguson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PULMONARY VEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846952457     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2006.00749.x     Document Type: Note

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