Temperature-controlled Radiofrequency Ablation of Cardiac Tissue: An In Vitro Study of the Impact of Electrode Orientation, Electrode Tissue Contact Pressure and External Convective Cooling
- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Vol. 3 (3) , 257-262
Abstract
Background: A variety of basic factors such as electrode tip pressure, flow around the electrode and electrode orientation influence lesion size during radiofrequency ablation, but importantly is...Keywords
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