Three potential mechanisms for failure of high intensity focused ultrasound ablation in cardiac tissue

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 409-416

  Laughner, Jacob I ^a   Sulkin, Matthew S ^a   Wu, Ziqi ^b   Deng, Cheri X ^b   Efimov, Igor R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Acoustic radiation force; Cardiac arrhythmias; Cavitation; High intensity focused ultrasound; Thermal effect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; HEART; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HISTOLOGY; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; HEAT; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICS; METHODOLOGY; RABBIT;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MODELS, ANIMAL; RABBITS;

EID: 84862254473     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.111.967216     Document Type: Article

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