Improved pressure-frequency sensing subxiphoid pericardial access system: Performance characteristics during in vivo testing

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 845-852

  Tucker Schwartz, Jason M ^a,b   Gillies, George T ^a   Mahapatra, Srijoy ^c  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epicardial ablation; epicardial access; pericardium; physiological measurements; thoracic pressure

Indexed keywords

EPICARDIAL ABLATION; EPICARDIAL ACCESS; PERICARDIUM; PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT; THORACIC PRESSURE;

ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; METADATA; NEEDLES;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER OPTIC BIOSENSOR; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE; HYDRODYNAMICS; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIUM; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUBXIPHOID ACCESS SYSTEM; THORAX PRESSURE; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICE;

ANIMALS; DOGS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; MANOMETRY; NEEDLES; PERICARDIUM; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; XIPHOID BONE;

EID: 79952969347     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2098874     Document Type: Article

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