Translesion stimulus-excitation delay indicates quality of linear lesions produced by radiofrequency ablation in rabbit hearts

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 611-623

  Himel IV, Herman D ^a   Dumas III, John H ^a   Kiser, Andy C ^b   Knisley, Stephen B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Action potential; Cardiac conduction; Electrical stimulation; Linear; Radiofrequency; RF; Transmural

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; TISSUE;

ACTION-POTENTIALS; CARDIAC CONDUCTIONS; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; LINEAR; LINEAR LESIONS; RABBIT HEARTS; RADIOFREQUENCIES; TRANSLESION; TRANSMURAL;

ABLATION;

CHLORIDE; FLUORESCENT DYE; TETRAZOLIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPICARDIUM; HEART; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART EXCITATION; HEART INJURY; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATED HEART; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 34249679146     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/28/6/001     Document Type: Article

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