Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) has been an important tool in the development
of advanced catheter ablation procedures. ICE technology now allows complete echocardiographic
interrogation of all four heart chambers from the right atrium. A list of the uses
for ICE in ablation procedures is given in Table 1.
Table 1Uses for intracardiac echocardiography in ablation procedures
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Published online: November 10, 2006
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