Contact sensing provides a highly accurate means to titrate radiofrequency ablation lesion depth

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 684-690

  Holmes, Douglas ^a   Fish, Jeffrey M ^b   Byrd, Israel A ^b   Dando, Jeremy D ^b   Fowler, Steven J ^a   Cao, Hong ^b   Jensen, James A ^b   Puryear, Harry A ^b   Chinitz, Larry A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b St Jude Medical Inc USA   (United States)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; electrical coupling; intracardiac lesions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CONTACT SENSING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICAL COUPLING INDEX; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; HEART ATRIUM; HEART INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION LESION DEPTH; SWINE; THIGH;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART ATRIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE;

EID: 79953790535     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2010.01963.x     Document Type: Article

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