Clinical considerations for allied professionals: Understanding and optimizing three-dimensional electroanatomic mapping of complex arrhythmias-Part 1

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1249-1252

  Hameedullah, Imad ^a   Chauhan, Vijay S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALLIED HEALTH EDUCATION; ARTICLE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; ELECTROANATOMIC MAPPING; EQUIPMENT; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GEOMETRY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETER; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PARAMEDICAL PROFESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 67650762400     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.04.032     Document Type: Note

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