Mechanism of complex fractionated electrograms recorded during atrial fibrillation in a canine model

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 844-857

  Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Lavi, Nimrod ^a   Bazan, Victor ^a   Gojraty, Sattar ^a   Kim, Steven J ^b   Michele, John ^a  

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

^b St Jude Medical Inc USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Canine model; Catheter ablation; Noncontact mapping; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ELECTROGRAM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL PARAMETERS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRODE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MULTIELECTRODE ARRAY; NONHUMAN; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC;

EID: 84860390240     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2011.03071.x     Document Type: Article

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