Image integration using NavX fusion: Initial experience and validation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 526-535

  Brooks, Anthony G ^a   Wilson, Lauren ^a   Kuklik, Pawel ^a   Stiles, Martin K ^a   John, Bobby ^a   Shashidhar, ^a   Dimitri, Hany ^a   Lau, Dennis H ^a   Roberts Thomson, Ross L ^a   Wong, Christopher X ^a   Young, Glenn D ^a   Sanders, Prashanthan ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Computed tomography; Three dimensional image integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE INTEGRATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; TREATMENT DURATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40849133829     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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