High-precision guidance of ablation catheters to arrhythmic sites using electrocardiographic signals

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 6297-6300

  Barley, Maya E ^a   Cohen, Richard J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION CATHETER; ARRHYTHMIA; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION; SINGLE-EQUIVALENT MOVING DIPOLE (SEMD) MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

CATHETERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIAL FLUTTER; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34047161916     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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