Time-resolved three-dimensional imaging of the left atrium and pulmonary veins in the interventional suite-A comparison between multisweep gated rotational three-dimensional reconstructed fluoroscopy and multislice computed tomography

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 513-519

  Al Ahmad, Amin ^a   Wigström, Lars ^b,c   Sandner Porkristl, Dominique ^d   Wang, Paul J ^a   Zei, Paul C ^a   Boese, Jan ^d   Lauritsch, Günter ^d   Moore, Teri ^d   Chan, Frandics ^c   Fahrig, Rebecca ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D imaging; C arm CT; Computed tomography; Multisegment reconstruction; Pulmonary veins; Retrospective cardiac gating

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART VOLUME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTISWEEP GATED ROTATIONAL THREE DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTED FLUOROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOGONAL ROTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VEIN DIAMETER;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PULMONARY VEINS; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40949092627     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.12.027     Document Type: Article

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