Non-fluoroscopic catheter tracking for fluoroscopy reduction in interventional electrophysiology

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn 2015, Issue 99, 2015, Pages

  Sommer, Philipp ^a   Kircher, Simon ^a   Rolf, Sascha ^a   Richter, Sergio ^a   Doering, Micha ^a   Arya, Arash ^a   Bollmann, Andreas ^a   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D mapping; Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Electrophysiology; Fluoroscopy; Issue 99; Medicine; Radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; DEVICES; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CATHETER ABLATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84941248992     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52606     Document Type: Article

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