How useful is the 3-dimensional image for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation?

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 436-437

  Hachiya, Hitoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CATHETER ABLATION; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; PULMONARY VEIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 62649141856     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0070     Document Type: Editorial

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