Ablation of multiwavelet re-entry guided by circuit-density and distribution maximizing the probability of circuit annihilation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1229-1235

  Carrick, Richard T ^a,b   Benson, Bryce ^b   Habel, Nicole ^a   Bates, Oliver R J ^c   Bates, Jason H T ^a,b   Spector, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac; Catheter ablation; Electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CIRCUIT ANNIHILATION; CIRCUIT DENSITY; CIRCUIT DISTRIBUTION; HEART; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MULTIWAVELET REENTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 84892158238     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000759     Document Type: Article

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