Determinants of lesion dimensions during transcatheter microwave ablation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-208

  Tse, Hung Fat ^a   Liao, Songyan ^a   Siu, Chung Wah ^a   Yuan, Liu ^a   Nicholls, John ^a   Leung, George ^b   Ormsby, Ted ^b   Feld, Gregory K ^c   Lau, Chu Pak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MedWaves   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Lesion; Microwave; Radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SWINE; THIGH;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; MICROWAVES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SWINE;

EID: 58849122722     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.02203.x     Document Type: Article

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