Image integration for catheter ablation: Searching for the perfect match

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 536-537

  Hsu, Li Fern ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GEOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE INTEGRATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40849085095     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.01.021     Document Type: Editorial

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