Segmentation and registration of three-dimensional rotational angiogram on live fluoroscopy to guide atrial fibrillation ablation: A new online imaging tool

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 231-237

  Li, Jonathan H ^a   Haim, Moti ^a   Movassaghi, Babak ^a,b   Mendel, Jeffrey B ^a   Chaudhry, G Muqtada ^a   Haffajee, Charles I ^a   Orlov, Michael V ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrium; Fibrillation; Imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INJECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGISTRATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ROTATIONAL ATRIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULMONARY VEINS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58949092780     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.10.038     Document Type: Article

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