Comparison of non-gated vs. electrocardiogram-gated 64-detector-row computed tomography for integrated electroanatomic mapping in patients undergoing pulmonary vein isolation

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1090-1097

  Wagner, Moritz ^a   Butler, Craig ^b   Rief, Matthias ^a   Beling, Mark ^a   Durmus, Tahir ^a   Huppertz, Alexander ^a   Voigt, Antje ^a   Baumann, Gert ^a   Hamm, Bernd ^a   Lembcke, Alexander ^a   Vogtmann, Thomas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; CartoMerge; Computed tomography; Image integration; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955201541     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euq135     Document Type: Article

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