Robotically Assisted Ablation Produces More Rapid and Greater Signal Attenuation Than Manual Ablation

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1398-1404

  Koa Wing, Michael ^a   Kojodjojo, Pipin ^a   Malcolme Lawes, Louisa C ^a   Salukhe, Tushar V ^a   Linton, Nick W F ^a   Grogan, Aaron P ^b   Bergman, Dale ^b   Lim, Phang Boon ^a   Whinnett, Zachary I ^a   McCarthy, Karen ^a   Ho, Siew Yen ^a   O'Neill, Mark D ^a   Peters, Nicholas S ^a   Davies, D Wyn ^a   Kanagaratnam, Prapa ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Hansen Medical Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Electrogram; Mapping; Robotic

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RECORDING; ROBOTICS; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE;

EID: 70450216522     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2009.01590.x     Document Type: Article

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