Construction and Interpretation of Endocardial Maps: From Basic Electrophysiology to 3D Mapping

Cardiac Mapping, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 11-26

  Eckardt, Lars ^a   Breithardt, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

"New" mapping technologies; Activation sequence mapping; AV nodal reentrant tachycardia; Contact catheter mapping classical methods; Conventional contact catheter mapping; Endocardial map construction and interpretation basic electrophysiology to 3D mapping; Fusion of 3D CT or MR images with electroanatomic map (by CARTOMerge); Pace mapping; Unipolar and bipolar electrograms; Ventricular tachycardia mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649558157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303438.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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