Ablation of atrial fibrillation using novel 4-dimensional catheter tracking within autoregistered left atrial angiograms

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 684-690

  Rolf, Sascha ^a   Sommer, Philipp ^a   Gaspar, Thomas ^a   John, Silke ^a   Arya, Arash ^a   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a   Piorkowski, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

4 dimensional mapping; Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Image integration; Nonfluoroscopic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOMETER;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867159333     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.112.971705     Document Type: Article

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