MRI evaluation of RF ablation scarring for atrial fibrillation treatment

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6509, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Ishihara, Yuri ^a   Nazafat, Reza ^b   Wylie, John V ^b   Linguraru, Marius G ^a   Josephson, Mark E ^b   Howe, Robert D ^a   Manning, Warren J ^b   Peters, Dana C ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibliration; Cardiac procedure; Image fusion; Image guided therapy; Iterative closest point; MRI; Pulmonary vein isolation; Validation

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LASER ABLATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PULMONARY DISEASES;

ATRIAL FIBLIRATION; CARDIAC PROCEDURE; IMAGE-GUIDED THERAPY; ITERATIVE CLOSEST POINT; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 35148887511     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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