Modeling and Registration for Electrophysiology Procedures Based on Three-Dimensional Imaging

Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-126

  Rhode, Kawal ^a   Sermesant, Maxime ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Cardiac electrophysiology model; Data fusion; Image registration; Model personalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864857006     PISSN: 19419066     EISSN: 19419074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12410-011-9067-7     Document Type: Review

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