Effects of atrial fibrillation substrate and spatiotemporal organization on atrial defibrillation thresholds

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1048-1056

  Everett IV, Thomas H ^a   Wilson, Emily E ^a   Olgin, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Atrial fibrillation; Defibrillation; Fourier analysis

Indexed keywords

METHACHOLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSIVE THERAPY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOG; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART CATHETER; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34547488042     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.03.032     Document Type: Article

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