A method for guiding ablation catheters to arrhythmogenic sites using body surface electrocardiographic signals

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 810-819

  Barley, Maya E ^a,b   Armoundas, Antonis A ^c   Cohen, Richard J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Equivalent moving dipole; Ventricular tachycardia (VT)

Indexed keywords

BODY SURFACES; CATHETER ABLATION; CURRENT PULSE; DIPOLE MODELS; DIPOLE ORIENTATIONS; EQUIVALENT MOVING DIPOLE; PATIENT POPULATIONS; REAL SPACES; REENTRANT CIRCUITS; VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS; VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA (VT);

ABLATION;

CATHETERS;

ALGORITHM; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; PULSE RATE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 65349176592     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2006277     Document Type: Article

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