Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation using the Navx-/Ensite-system and a CT-/MRI-guided approach

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 285-296

  Kettering, Klaus ^a   Greil, Gerald F ^b   Fenchel, Michael ^b   Kramer, Ulrich ^b   Weig, Hans Joerg ^b   Busch, Mathias ^b   Miller, Stephan ^b   Sieverding, Ludger ^b   Laszlo, Roman ^b   Schreieck, Juergen ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; MRI; Multi detector spiral computed tomography; Pulmonary veins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY VEIN; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67349229795     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-009-0001-9     Document Type: Article

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