Myocardial electrical impedance as a predictor of the quality of RF-induced linear lesions

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1195-1207

  Dumas III, John H ^a   Himel IV, Herman D ^a   Kiser, Andy C ^b   Quint, Stephen R ^a   Knisley, Stephen B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Arrhythmia; Heart; Impedance; Resistivity

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DISEASES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRODES; FORECASTING; HEART;

CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA; IMPEDANCE; LINEAR LESIONS; MYOCARDIAL ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCES; PRE ABLATIONS; RADIOFREQUENCIES; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTRODES; RESISTIVITY; TRANSLESION;

ABLATION;

TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INJURY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART PERFUSION; IMPEDANCE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; YOUDEN INDEX;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 58149313906     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/29/10/004     Document Type: Article

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