Noninvasive assessment of tissue heating during cardiac radiofrequency ablation using MRI thermography.

@article{Kolandaivelu2010NoninvasiveAO,
  title={Noninvasive assessment of tissue heating during cardiac radiofrequency ablation using MRI thermography.},
  author={Aravindan Kolandaivelu and Menekhem M. Zviman and Valeria de Castro and Albert C. Lardo and Ronald D. Berger and Henry R. Halperin},
  journal={Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology},
  year={2010},
  volume={3 5},
  pages={
          521-9
        }
}

• Aravindan Kolandaivelu, Menekhem M. Zviman, +3 authors Henry R. Halperin
• Published 2010 in Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology
• DOI:10.1161/CIRCEP.110.942433

BACKGROUND Failure to achieve properly localized, permanent tissue destruction is a common cause of arrhythmia recurrence after cardiac ablation. Current methods of assessing lesion size and location during cardiac radiofrequency ablation are unreliable or not suited for repeated assessment during the procedure. MRI thermography could be used to delineate permanent ablation lesions because tissue heating above 50°C is the cause of permanent tissue destruction during radiofrequency ablation… CONTINUE READING

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