β-radiation for the creation of linear lesions in the canine atrium

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 911-914

  Guerra, Peter G ^a   Talajic, Mario ^a   Thibault, Bernard ^a   Dubuc, Marc ^a   Roy, Denis ^a   Made, Laurent ^a   Leung, Tack Ki ^a   Arsenault, André ^a   Harel, François ^a   Grégoire, Jean ^a   Bonan, Raoul ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Catheter ablation; Radioisotopes

Indexed keywords

STRONTIUM; YTTRIUM 90;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART INJURY; HISTOLOGY; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; BETA RAYS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DOGS; FIBROSIS; HEART ATRIA; HEART BLOCK; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 4344653746     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000139865.39885.03     Document Type: Article

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