Contrast echocardiography for cardiac radio-frequency ablation.
The authors presented a first application of 2-D contrast-enhanced ICE in localizing RF ablation lesions and, more importantly, accurately and reproducibly quantifying their extent and depth within the myocardium in the intact beating heart. Furthermore, the study extended this application and presented, for the first time, a novel method based on contrast-enhanced 3-D ICE to describe details of contiguous linear lesions.
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Liyun Rao
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D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods*; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D045423:Microbubbles; D000078702:Radiofrequency Therapy