Heart Rhythm
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Pages 55-63 , January 2005

Feasibility and validation of registration of three-dimensional left atrial models derived from computed tomography with a noncontact cardiac mapping system

  • Jasbir Sra, MD

      Affiliations

    • Electrophysiology Laboratories of Aurora Sinai and St. Luke’s Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin Medical School-Milwaukee Clinical Campus, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Jasbir Sra, 2801 W. KK River Parkway, #777, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53215.
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  • David Krum, MS

      Affiliations

    • Electrophysiology Laboratories of Aurora Sinai and St. Luke’s Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin Medical School-Milwaukee Clinical Campus, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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  • John Hare, BS

      Affiliations

    • Electrophysiology Laboratories of Aurora Sinai and St. Luke’s Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin Medical School-Milwaukee Clinical Campus, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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  • Darin Okerlund, MS

      Affiliations

    • GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin
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  • Helen Thompson, BS

      Affiliations

    • GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin
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  • Melissa Vass, BS

      Affiliations

    • GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin
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  • Jeff Schweitzer, MS

      Affiliations

    • Endocardial Solutions, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota
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  • Eric Olson, MS

      Affiliations

    • Endocardial Solutions, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota
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  • W. Dennis Foley, MD

      Affiliations

    • Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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  • Masood Akhtar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Electrophysiology Laboratories of Aurora Sinai and St. Luke’s Medical Centers, University of Wisconsin Medical School-Milwaukee Clinical Campus, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Received 16 August 2004 ,Accepted 20 October 2004.

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PII: S1547-5271(04)00766-0

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.10.035

Heart Rhythm
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Pages 55-63 , January 2005

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