Heart Rhythm
Volume 4, Issue 8 , Pages 1048-1056 , August 2007

Effects of atrial fibrillation substrate and spatiotemporal organization on atrial defibrillation thresholds

  • Thomas H. Everett IV, PhD
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  • Emily E. Wilson, BS
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  • Jeffrey E. Olgin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Jeffrey E. Olgin, University of California San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Avenue, MU East 4, Box 1354, San Francisco, California 94143-1354.

Received 22 February 2007 ,Accepted 22 March 2007.

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 Supported by National Institutes of Health Grant RO1-HL072854 to Dr. Olgin.

PII: S1547-5271(07)00311-6

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.03.032

Heart Rhythm
Volume 4, Issue 8 , Pages 1048-1056 , August 2007

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