Mapping and ablation of the pulmonary veins and cavo-tricuspid isthmus with a magnetic resonance imaging-compatible externally irrigated ablation catheter and integrated electrophysiology system

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1136-1142

  Ganesan, Anand N ^a   Selvanayagam, Joseph B ^b   Mahajan, Rajiv ^a   Grover, Suchi ^b   Nayyar, Sachin ^a   Brooks, Anthony G ^a   Finnie, John ^c   Sunnarborg, Daniel ^d   Lloyd, Thomas ^d   Chakrabarty, Adhiraj ^b   Abed, Hany S ^a   Sanders, Prashanthan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SA Pathology   (Australia)

^d Imricor Medical Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Catheter ablation; Electrophysiology; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CATHETER; CAVA VEIN; CAVO TRICUSPID ISTHMUS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PACING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECORDING; TRICUSPID VALVE; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; VEIN INJURY; WETHER;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GADOLINIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PULMONARY VEINS; SHEEP; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 84873824135     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.112.974436     Document Type: Article

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