Development of an electrophysiology (EP)-enabled intracardiac ultrasound catheter integrated with NavX 3-dimensional electrofield mapping for guiding cardiac EP interventions: Experimental studies

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1565-1574

  Xiao, Kui Li ^a   Pemberton, James ^a   Thomenius, Kai ^b   Dentinger, Aaron ^b   Lowe, Robert I ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad ^a   Shung, K Kirk ^c   Chia, Raymond ^d   Stephens, Douglas N ^e   O'Donnell, Matthew ^f   Mahajan, Aman ^g   Balaji, Seshadri ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^g   Sahn, David J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Irvine Biomedical Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Improved resolution; Integrated; Intracardiac imaging; Rhythm analysis; Steerability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MOTION ESTIMATION; TISSUE;

ELECTROFIELD SENSING; IMPROVED RESOLUTION; INTRACARDIAC IMAGING; RHYTHM ANALYSIS; STEERABILITY;

CATHETERS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CATHETER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; IMAGING SYSTEM; MITRAL VALVE; NONHUMAN; PULMONARY VALVE; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE; TRICUSPID VALVE; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 38549153457     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.11.1565     Document Type: Article

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