Heart Rhythm
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Pages 339-354 , April 2005

Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI): Comparison to intraoperative mapping in patients

  • Raja N. Ghanem, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity Research and Training Center (CBRTC), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
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  • Ping Jia, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity Research and Training Center (CBRTC), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
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  • Charulatha Ramanathan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity Research and Training Center (CBRTC), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
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  • Kyungmoo Ryu, MS

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity Research and Training Center (CBRTC), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
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  • Alan Markowitz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio.
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  • Yoram Rudy, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Bioelectricity Research and Training Center (CBRTC), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Yoram Rudy, Washington University in St. Louis Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC), 290 Whitaker Hall, Campus Box 1097, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899.
    • Dr. Rudy’s current affiliation is the Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Received 24 September 2004 ,Accepted 20 December 2004.

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 This study was supported by NIH-NHLBI Grants R37-HL-33343 and R01-HL-49054 to Dr. Rudy and by a Whitaker Foundation Development Award. Dr. Rudy is the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St Louis.

PII: S1547-5271(05)00005-6

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.12.022

Heart Rhythm
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Pages 339-354 , April 2005

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