High-resolution endocardial and epicardial optical mapping in a sheep model of stretch-induced atrial fibrillation

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 53, 2011, Pages

  Filgueiras Rama, David ^a   Martins, Raphael Pedro ^a   Ennis, Steven R ^a   Mironov, Sergey ^a   Jiang, Jiang ^a   Yamazaki, Masatoshi ^a   Kalifa, Jérôme ^a   Jalife, Josè ^a   Berenfeld, Omer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Endocardial mapping; Issue 53; Medicine; Patterns of activation; Posterior left atrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355131541     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3103     Document Type: Article

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