Validation of a novel catheter guiding method for the ablative therapy of ventricular tachycardia in a phantom model

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 907-910

  Barley, Maya E ^a,b   Choppy, Kristen J ^c   Galea, Anna M ^c   Armoundas, Antonis A ^d   Rosbury, Tamara S ^e,f   Hirschman, Gordon B ^c   Cohen, Richard J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c INFOSCITEX CORPORATION   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^f MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ABLATIVE THERAPIES; ACCURATE GUIDANCES; CARDIAC ELECTRICAL ACTIVITIES; CATHETER ABLATION; CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES; ELECTRICAL DIPOLES; EQUIVALENT MOVING DIPOLE; GUIDANCE ALGORITHMS; INHOMOGENEOUS PHANTOMS; INVERSE SOLUTIONS; PATIENT POPULATIONS; PHANTOM MODELS; STATIONARY SOURCES; TORSO PHANTOMS; VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA (VT);

ABLATION;

CATHETERS;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INVERSE SOLUTION GUIDANCE ALGORITHM; PHANTOM; TRUNK;

ALGORITHMS; CATHETER ABLATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 65349187150     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2006274     Document Type: Article

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