Experimental studies With a 9F forward-looking intracardiac imaging and ablation catheter

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-215

  Stephens, Douglas N ^a   O'Donnell, Matthew ^b   Thomenius, Kai ^c   Dentinger, Aaron ^c   Wildes, Douglas ^c   Chen, Peter ^d   Shung, K Kirk ^e   Cannata, Jonathan ^e   Khuri Yakub, Pierre ^f   Oralkan, Omer ^f   Mahajan, Aman ^g   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^g   Sahn, David J ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Irvine Biomedical Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Electrophysiology; Interventional guidance; Intracardiac ultrasound array; Miniaturized

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; BANDWIDTH; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STRAIN RATE;

ABLATION CATHETERS; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; INTERVENTIONAL; INTRACARDIAC IMAGING; MINIATURIZED; SOFTWARE MODIFICATION; STRAIN RATE IMAGING; ULTRASOUND ARRAYS;

CATHETERS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ELECTRODE; EX VIVO STUDY; HEART; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; SWINE; ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 64349122290     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2009.28.2.207     Document Type: Article

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