Phase mapping of cardiac fibrillation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-114

  Umapathy, Karthikeyan ^a,b   Nair, Krishnakumar ^a   Masse, Stephane ^a   Krishnan, Sridhar ^b   Rogers, Jack ^c   Nash, Martyn P ^d   Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cardiac fibrillation; Phase maps; Phase singularity; Phase space; Rotors; Wave break

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY PARAMETERS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH; ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 77649318270     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.853804     Document Type: Review

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