Evaluation of spatiotemporal organization of persistent atrial fibrillation with time- and frequency-domain measures in humans

Europace

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 316-323

  Berntsen, Rolf Franck ^a   Cheng, Alan ^b   Calkins, Hugh ^b   Berger, Ronald D ^b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Electrograms; Mapping; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; FLECAINIDE; PROPAFENONE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61649124745     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eun307     Document Type: Article

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