Use of imaging techniques to guide catheter ablation procedures

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 374-381

  Robinson, Melissa R ^a   Hutchinson, Mathew D ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Intracardiac echocardiography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOGENESIS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY VEINS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956245963     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-010-0132-7     Document Type: Review

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