Real-time magnetic resonance guidance of interventional electrophysiology procedures with passive catheter visualization and tracking

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 938-939

  Nordbeck, Peter ^a,b   Quick, Harald H ^c   Ladd, Mark E ^d   Ritter, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catheter visualization; Interventional electrophysiology; Intraprocedural magnetic resonance imaging; MRI

Indexed keywords

CATHETER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84893657634     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.12.017     Document Type: Article

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