Quantitative evaluation of atrial radio frequency ablation using intracardiac shear-wave elastography

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Kwiecinski, Wojciech ^a   Provost, Jean ^a   Dubois, Rémi ^b   Sacher, Frédéric ^b   Haïssaguerre, Michel ^b   Legros, Mathieu ^c   Nguyen Dinh, An ^c   Dufait, Rémi ^c   Tanter, Mickaël ^a   Pernot, Mathieu ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE CARDIO THORACIQUE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c Innovation Department   (France)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; intracardiac echocardiography; shear wave elastography; thermal ablation monitoring; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS; TISSUE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL TISSUES; CARDIAC TISSUES; EX-VIVO; IN-VIVO; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIES; RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER ABLATION; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; THERMAL ABLATION; THERMAL ABLATION MONITORING;

ELASTIC MODULI;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; HEART CYCLE; HEART INJURY; HEART VENTRICLE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; SHEEP; THERMAL INJURY; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VALIDATION STUDY; ANIMAL; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SHEAR STRENGTH; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETERS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEART; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIUM; PRESSURE; RADIO WAVES; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEEP; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84908191853     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4896820     Document Type: Article

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