Visual, tactile, and contact force feedback: Which one is more important for catheter ablation? Results from an in vitro experimental study

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 506-513

  Di Biase, Luigi ^a,b,c,d   Paoletti Perini, Alessandro ^e   Mohanty, Prasant ^a   Goldenberg, Alex S ^g   Grifoni, Gino ^e   Santangeli, Pasquale ^a,d   Santoro, Francesco ^a,d   Sanchez, Javier E ^a   Horton, Rodney ^a   Joseph Gallinghouse, G ^a   Conti, Sergio ^f   Mohanty, Sanghamitra ^a   Bailey, Shane ^a   Trivedi, Chintan ^a   Garg, Aditi ^g   Grogan, Aaron P ^g   Wallace, Dan T ^g   Padeletti, Luigi ^e   Reddy, Vivek ^h   Jais, Pierre ⁱ   Haïssaguerre, Michelle ⁱ   Natale, Andrea ^a,c,j,k,l,m   more..

^a TEXAS CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^g Hansen Medical   (United States)

^h MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^m SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Complications; Contact force; Fluoroscopy; Impedance

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPLICATIONS; CONTACT FORCE; FLUOROSCOPY; IMPEDANCE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEEDBACK; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; PRESSURE; ROBOTICS; TOUCH; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84894542877     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.11.016     Document Type: Article

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