Personalization of atrial anatomy and electrophysiology as a basis for clinical modeling of radio-frequency ablation of atrial fibrillation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-84

  Krueger, Martin W ^a   Seemann, Gunnar ^a   Rhode, Kawal ^b   Keller, D U J ^a   Schilling, Christopher ^a   Arujuna, Aruna ^b   Gill, Jaswinder ^b   O'Neill, Mark D ^b   Razavi, Reza ^b   Dossel, Olaf ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrial models; electrophysiological modeling; model personalization; patient specific therapy

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ACTIVATION TIME; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL MODELS; CARDIAC MODELING; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; FAST-MARCHING; LEVEL SET APPROACH; MONODOMAINS; MULTISCALES; PATIENT-SPECIFIC THERAPY; PERSONALIZATIONS; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION; RULE BASED;

ABLATION; DISEASES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; DEPOLARIZATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART EXCITATION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; P WAVE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SIMULATION; VELOCITY; ABLATION THERAPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ANISOTROPY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871958199     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2201948     Document Type: Article

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