Real-time integration of intracardiac echocardiography and multislice computed tomography to guide radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1403-1410

  den Uijl, Dennis W ^a   Tops, Laurens F ^a   Tolosana, José M ^a,b   Schuijf, Joanne D ^a   Trines, Serge A I P ^a   Zeppenfeld, Katja ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a   Schalij, Martin J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Intracardiac echocardiography; Mapping; Multi slice computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 53049085952     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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